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    How to Install Geany IDE on Ubuntu 18.04 & 16.04 LTS

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    Geany is a lightweight IDE (Integrated Development Environment) using the GTK2 toolkit. It was developed to provide a small and faster IDE for users for editing files. Geany has few of dependencies from other packages so its easier to install. AS Geany only uses GTK2 toolkit and therefore you need only the GTK2 runtime libraries to run. This tutorial will help you to install Geany IDE on Ubuntu 18.04 & 16.04 Desktop systems.

    Features

    Geany has a large number of features which is useful for use, below is the list of few basic features:

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    • Syntax highlighting
    • Code completion
    • Auto completion of constructs
    • Geany supported filetypes like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal
    • symbol lists
    • and many more….

    Install Geany on Ubuntu

    Geany is available under default Ubuntu repositories. To install most recent version, you need to configure ppa of Geany to your system. Run the following command to configure Geany PPA on Ubuntu:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:geany-dev/ppa
sudo apt-get update

    Then install Geany on Ubuntu:

    sudo apt-get install geany geany-plugins-common

    Launch Geany IDE

    To start Geany IDE go to dashboard home search box and type “Geany”, click the Geany launcher icon:

    Geany on Ubuntu

    You can also use the command to launch Geany IDE:

    geany

    install Geany on Ubuntu

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    1. younes on

      Impossible d’obtenir le verrou /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend – open (11: Ressource temporairement non disponible)
      E: Impossible d’obtenir le verrou de dpkg (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend). Il est possible qu’un autre processus l’utilise.
      what the problem n?

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    3. andrej-dev on

      Thanks for this tutorial. Tried to run it, but something seems to be broken. Please, see below:

      $ sudo apt-get install geany geany-plugins-common
      Reading package lists… Done
      Building dependency tree
      Reading state information… Done
      Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
      requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
      distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
      or been moved out of Incoming.
      The following information may help to resolve the situation:

      The following packages have unmet dependencies:
      geany : Depends: geany-common (= 1.32-2) but 1.34.1-1~14.04 is to be installed
      E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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