Recommended distro

[RogerIrwin]

Last autumn I installed rc2 under both Slakware and Debian. I eventually suceeded in both cases but only after a lot of upgrading and searching around for all the dependencies etc. Bit of a pain when your on dial-up.

Now I am going to set up a new linux box specifically for codeblocks development, and I kind of wondered if anybody knows a distro which allready has the necessary versions of packages such as Gtk, wxWindows,  aclocal etc.

I rather suspect a lot of users on this forum will be installing Linux distros primarily to run codeblocks, and if we could find a 'recommended' installation roadmap it could be very useful and timesaving to all.

[mandrav]

I can't recommend you anything because I 'm a hardcore fan of debian-based distros . I personally use ubuntu.

[RogerIrwin]

I also like Debian......but only on systems in broadband ;-)

I suppose the fault is a bit mine, I tend to use the CD's you get on magazine covers, so I find myself having to search through development package archives on the net to get all the packages I need to install something like codeblocks.

What about Ubuntu? Is a WxWidgets 6 plug and play package available?

[takeshimiya]

Last autumn I installed rc2 under both Slakware and Debian. I eventually suceeded in both cases but only after a lot of upgrading and searching around for all the dependencies etc. Bit of a pain when your on dial-up.

Now I am going to set up a new linux box specifically for codeblocks development, and I kind of wondered if anybody knows a distro which allready has the necessary versions of packages such as Gtk, wxWindows,  aclocal etc.

I rather suspect a lot of users on this forum will be installing Linux distros primarily to run codeblocks, and if we could find a 'recommended' installation roadmap it could be very useful and timesaving to all.

Ubuntu 64 here.
I used to be fan of Slackware, but now I preffer debian-based because there isn't other distro in that you'll find that big number of packages.
And for Ubuntu, as it gained momentum, it's high likely you will find better support on the forums, wiki, etc, and a entablished date for stable releases (every 6 months), and so on.

Avoid source-based distros (gentoo), if you don't want to waste days compiling source. It offers other advantages though, like having always the latest bleeding edge "packages".

What about Ubuntu? Is a WxWidgets 6 plug and play package available?

Yes, (wxwidgets-devel, wx-common) altrough you'll need all packages related to development (gcc, autotools, etc).

[Conan Kudo]

I recommend Fedora Core 4. It has all the dependencies already, and if it is missing something, just type "yum <package-name>" into a terminal prompt and it will download it from the Fedora Extras repos. Usually you do not if you do a complete installation, but a complete installation includes the Eclipse IDE GCJ edition. You could opt to (after installation) to remove Eclipse, so that Code::Blocks would be default. But Fedora is good. Ubuntu usually has problems with installing non-repo packages, as do most Debian distros (no offense to Debian lovers, Debian is a good OS, and very stable)... The bleeding edge status of Fedora means you have the latest libs and stuff already... Not quite sure if wxWidgets is already included, but it can be easily added, because there are RPMs for it.

[Michael]

Personally (and after a lot of searching and reading), I like Ubuntu and Gentoo . This website comparing Ubuntu with other distros was rather interesting, even if it is old and now things could have (probably changed.

Anyway, the best thing is IMHO to try some distros and then decide which one to use.

Best wishes,
Michael

PS.: I was relatively surprised to see how much google results you can get when searching for comparisons between the different Linux distros .