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    How to Install Development Tools on Ubuntu, Debian & Mint

    By RahulDecember 10, 20211 Min Read

    Development tools are required to install on your system if you have planned to build software. It’s also useful for building packages on your system. Development tools contain a few general useful tools like GCC, g++, make, libc6-dev, and dpkg-dev packages. You need to install build-essential on Ubuntu and LinuxMint systems which include all other required packages as dependencies.

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    Install Development Tools on Ubuntu, Debian and Mint

    The development tools packages are available under default apt repositories for most of the Ubuntu-based systems. Use the following commands to install the development tools package on your Ubuntu and Linuxmint systems.

    sudo apt update 
    sudo apt install build-essential 
    

    Check Installed Versions

    After successful installation of the build-essential package on your system, let’s check installed versions of important binaries.

    Check the version of GCC on your system:

    gcc --version 
    
    Output
    gcc (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04) 9.3.0 Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

    Also check the make binary version:

    make --version
    
    Output
    GNU Make 4.2.1 Built for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Copyright (C) 1988-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later

    Conclusion

    This quick how-to quite helps you to install development tools on your Ubuntu, Debian and other Debian-based Linux systems.

    Development Tools GCC Make
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    4 Comments

    1. Cosmicdave on January 16, 2021 5:08 pm

      🙂 Thanks for this. Very useful!

      Reply
    2. J on November 14, 2020 2:46 pm

      Cheers, this helped me quite a bit since I had been wanting to find the equivalent of yum groupinstall “Development Tools”

      Reply
    3. Henry Souder-Arguedas on August 5, 2019 4:46 pm

      hey way to go man thanks!

      Reply
    4. Piter on February 10, 2019 10:17 pm

      any info about how ti reappear Ubuntu from install CD ?
      thanks

      Reply

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