Setting Up Your GTK Workspace

Alright, so onto the meat of things! Before any of the magic happens, I need to set up my system so that I can actually build something.

Several months ago, I first tried doing this by reading the GTK Tutorial (also in my links), and it said I needed to download GTK source from the GTK website and install it from source. Needless to say, I had too much power in my hands than I knew what to do with and I trashed my Ubuntu box. Ok, so we’ll do this the easy way: Synaptic

Open up your Synaptic Package Manager and look for libgtk2.0-0, it should already be installed. Check to be sure. There should be several similar packages already installed, but the most important package is the libgtk2.0-0-dev. Hmm, I’ll install libgtk2.0-0-doc for good measure as well. Iwas going to install the libgtk2.0-0-dbg, too, but the package description says most people won’t need this, so scrap that.There are several more, but I think this is enough to get started.

After marking the packages (Synaptic will prompt you that it needs several more packages to install libgtk2.0-0-dev), click on the Apply button and we’re done! Man, this tutorial could be more interesting if it was just a little bit harder. On the other hand, at least I’m sure this won’t trash my desktop. Oh well.

[Edit] I forgot to say thanks to Kostkon and Compyx in the Ubuntu Forums for pointing me in this direction. Thanks!

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