Install IDE Code Blocks 16.01 (Latest) on Ubuntu
What is Code::Blocks?
Code::Blocks is an IDE for the C, C++, and Fortran programming languages that open source and cross-platform. Code::Blocks is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and FreeBSD platforms.
It should be noted, Code::Blocks is an IDE, not an compiler or linkerso that in packageits, Code::Blocks requires and includes external compiler such as MinGW/GCC.
Code::Blocks is designed for compatible with a lot compiler, including MinGW/GCC as mentioned above, Visual C++, Digital Mars, Borland C++, LLVM Clang, Watcom, LCC, and Intel C++ Compiler. In addition to the C++ programming language, it is also available compiler for other programming languages such as GNU Fortran, Digital Mars D, and GNU GDC.
Code::Blocks is equipped with plugins facilities, so that the addition of new features can be done by installing plugins is as desired. The available features depend on the installed plugins.
In its current use, Code::Blocks is more available as a development tool in the C and C++ programming languages, although in fact Code::Blocks can also be customized by performing additional installations to develop other software such as GTK+, ARM, AVR, DirectX, FLTK, Fortran, MATLAB, OGRE, OpenGL, Qt, GLFW, GLUT, Lightfeather, SDL, SFML, STL, SmartWin and others.
Install Code::Blocks 16.01 on Ubuntu
Actually Ubuntu already provides Code::Blocks on repository-his. However, the Code::Blocks provided is the old version of Code::Blocks. While the latest version of Code::Blocks is now Code::Blocks 16.01 which has various feature updates and improvements, as well as improvements from the previous version.
To install Code::Blocks 16.01, first add the Stable PPA from Code::Blocks. Open Terminal in Ubuntu via Dash, or by pressing the combination CTRL + ALT + T on keyboard.
Once Terminal opens, type or copy-paste following command in Terminal to add PPA repository Code::Blocks.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:damien-moore/codeblocks-stable
Then do updates and install Code::Blocks by typing the following command in Terminal.
sudo apt update
sudo apt install codeblocks
Wait for the update and installation process to complete. After it finishes, restart or log out Ubuntu first so that Code::Blocks can appear in the Dash or application menu. Safe!
