Setting Up Ubuntu for EiffelStudio


EiffelStudio Installation

Once you have installed Ubuntu, you need to make sure you have the following packages installed. This will let you compile EiffelStudio projects and also build an EiffelStudio delivery.

  • C compiler
sudo apt-get install gcc g++ make
  • Subversion
sudo apt-get install subversion
  • GTK
sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libxtst-dev
  • Building deliveries
sudo apt-get install build-essential devscripts debhelper fakeroot lintian rpm
  • Various utilities
sudo apt-get install pax mkisofs
  • Web suport (cURL):
sudo apt-get install libcurl-dev


32-bit consideration

And if you plan on using some 32-bit executables on a 64-bit version of Ubuntu you need to install the 32-bit libraries:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

Miscellaneous

In addition, although not required, you may want to install NIS and NFS to have your new Ubuntu machine integrated in your existing network:

sudo apt-get install portmap nis nfs-common

And the following pages to help you set them up: