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Installing U++ on Ubuntu

 

The U++ packages for Ubuntu are available on Launchpad.net, both for stable releases and nightly builds. This guide explains how to add the PPA (Personal Package Archive) to your system and install U++ sources and TheIDE from there.

 

Installing stable release packages

 

To start using any software from a PPA, you first need to tell Ubuntu where to find the PPA. For Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) and later this is really easy (see note below for instruction for older systems). To add the stable PPA to your system, just execute following command in terminal:

 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dolik-rce/upp

 

This will add the PPA to your sources.list as well as download the gpg keys that are used to ensure authenticity of packages when installing.

 

Note: On older (pre 9.10 Karmic) Ubuntu systems there is no add-apt-repository command, so the first step is little bit more complicated. First of all, you must manually add the repository information to /etc/apt/sources.list. To do so, open this file in a text editor (here gedit is usedd, but can be replaced with any other editor - e.g. nano, mousepad, ...):

 

sudo gedit /etc/apt/source.list

 

This will open a text editor containing the list of archives that your system is currently using. Scroll to the bottom of the file and paste in these two lines:

 

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/dolik-rce/upp/ubuntu hardy main

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/dolik-rce/upp/ubuntu hardy main

 

If you use Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty, replace "hardy" with "jaunty". Save the file and exit the text editor.

 

Now you need to add that key to your system so Ubuntu can verify the packages from the PPA. In your terminal, enter:

 

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 643469F3

 

This will now pull down the PPA's key and add it to your system. Now the PPA is added and the rest of the instructions is same for all versions of Ubuntu.

 

 

The next step is to tell your system to pull down the latest list of software from each archive it knows about, including the PPA you just added:

 

sudo apt-get update

 

Now we are ready to install U++, by issuing the last command

 

sudo apt-get install upp

 

You will be probably prompted if you want to install packages upp and theide, just press Y to confirm. And that's it, it is really simple, right? The U++ sources are now installed in /usr/share/upp. TheIDE is in /usr/bin/theide and you should also see it now in your application menu (or application launcher or whatever it is called in your desktop environment).

 

Upon the first start of TheIDE you will be presented with Source management wizard that allows you to specify how to treat the sources and their updates. In default settings, the sources will be copied in your home directory (so you can access and modify them without root permissions).

 

Installing nightly build packages

 

The procedure for installing the nightly packages is exactly the same as for the stable releases, the only difference is the address of the PPA. To install nightly PPA, replace "dolik-rce/upp" with "dolik-rce/upp-nightly" everywhere in the above instructions.

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