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Grouch:
I have downloaded and installed Code::Blocks on two Ubuntu computers with no problems, but I am now defeated in trying to install 10.05. Here is what the CB website says:
 
"Download the binary release

This is the easy way for installing Code::Blocks. Download the setup file, run it on your computer and Code::Blocks will be installed, ready for you to work with it. Can't get any easier than that!"


Well, I downloaded the codeblocks-10.05-debian-i386.tar.bz2 and told the archive manager to extract. The result was 13 .deb files. Is one supposed to do

sudo dpkg

on each of these? Surely there is an easier way.

Thank you for any help.

Jenna:
For the release 10.05, you can use either ubuntu's repo (all recent revisions have it, debian also)
or use my repo with

--- Code: ---deb http://apt.jenslody.de/stable stable release
--- End code ---
in /etc/apt/sources.list.
For possibilities to install more recent versions (so called nightly builds) see my site for instructions: http://apt.jenslody.de/ .

Grouch:
Many thanks, Jens. I now have 10.05 up and running.

For the benefit of others reading this correspondence, let me be more explicit about what I did. First, I did NOT find Code::Blocks 10.05 in the Ubuntu repositories, only 8.10. (I had looked there for 10.05 before posting my question.) So I added Jens's repository by editing the sources.list file in the /etc/apt directory to add the line

--- Code: ---deb http://apt.jenslody.de/stable stable release
--- End code ---
This file was protected from writing, so I first had to use a terminal to do

--- Code: ---sudo chmod a+rw sources.list
--- End code ---
and then use gedit to add the line.

Then I restarted the Synaptic Package Manager and looked for codeblocks. There was 10.05! When I clicked one of the old 8.10 files to update, I was sternly warned that the software could not be authenticated and that it might be produced by a malicious individual. Never having found Jens malicious, I decided to go ahead, and all seems well.

The icon on the desktop was not changed, but when I clicked it, 10.05 came up, not 8.10.
 

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