[gtkada] installing Gtkada / GTK+ 2.0 in Ubuntu 9.04

[Rob Groen]

Thanks for your help. I succeeded in installing GtkAda 2.14.0. on Ubuntu 
9.04

Best regards,
Rob Groen

Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> Rob Groen writes:
>   
>> Don 't think I need 2.14 specifically. It was the version that Adacore 
>> on their Libre site provides.
>> I looked at the Synaptic package manager, but when I marked 
>> libgtkada2-dev then it showed an enormous list of additional required 
>> packages, including gnat 4.3, g++, X11 related etc etc, so that I 
>> thought that libgtkada2-dev was intended for Gtkada developers. i.e. 
>> people who work on and improve Gtkada, not a simple end user like me. 
>> Since I already installed GNAT I also was not sure in what way this 
>> could interfere. And since for GNAT there is only a doinstall, and not a 
>> douninstall, I am a bit reluctant to just do "rm -r /usr/gnat" ...)
>> (Note I want to migrate from Windows XP to Linux/Ubuntu. I have some 
>> past Unix experience but that was way back....)
>>     
>
> The GtkAda from AdaCore has the same dependencies as the Debian packages
> but, since it is a source-only distribution, it lists the dependencies
> in a README file for you, the user, to read and understand.  For example
> it depends on GTK+ and you were correctly wondering how to install that
> since you are required to install it by yourself.  The purpose of the
> Debian packages is to automate all this and save you the work of
> compiling everything.  The price you pay is a slightly older version of
> the libraries and compiler.
>
> The -dev packages in Debian are not for the developers of the libraries;
> they are for application developers who want to use the libraries in
> their programs.  (The developers of GtkAda use the sources from the
> Subversion repository directly, not a package.)
>
> So, if you are uncomfortable compiling everything and keeping track of
> dependencies by hand, I suggest that Debian offers an easier solution.
>
> (Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian and uses the Debian packages, possibly
> modified.  That's why my discussion above is relevant to you.  However,
> I have no involvement, control or knowledge of Ubuntu, so I am not
> responsible for any bugs or discrepancies that Ubuntu may introduce in
> their packages.)
>
>   

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