Re: Ada on Linux

["Paul" <pcas1986@bigpond.net.au>]

OK I'll try that because so far I have downloaded over a dozen packages and 
several versions of some of those, my desk is covered in various scraps of 
paper, sticky notes, CDs and the odd empty coffee cup!  But on the bright 
side I'm now very familiar with ./configure, make, make install and many 
obscure linux sites. I seem to have spent days watching script files 
whizzing by and wondering if all those warnings I see for a few milliseconds 
or so are important!

And to cap it off my ubuntu install is now not booting (I'm back in WinXP 
with a blank Ubuntu screen in the background).

Actually I've used apt-get install a few times but it didn't occur to me to 
ask for gnat-glade. Perhaps its a case of can't see the forest for the 
trees.

Paul

"Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote in message 
news:87lkbuzkue.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org...
> Paul writes:
>> Thanks for the replies.  I have been reading the various INSTALL files 
>> I'm
>> obviously missing something in the installation order, versions
>> compatibility etc.  Anyway, the tips have given me something new to check
>> out.  Thanks again.
>
> I'm confused.  If you install on a Debian-based system such as Ubuntu,
> apt-get takes care of all that for you thanks to dependencies between
> packages.  So the simple recipe you asked for, in the case of a
> gnat-glade development system, is:
>
> apt-get install gnat-glade
>
> This will install gnat-4.1 and many others that are required by
> gnat-glade.
>
> -- 
> Ludovic Brenta.