When developing projects using the Glade user interface designer and GTK+ 3, the Glade application and the GTK library must be installed on the development computer. This article shows how to install these components on a Debian based Linux distribution such as Linux Mint or Ubuntu. Installing GTK 3 and Glade development tools in Linux from the command line is described in the sections below.
Installing Glade
To install Glade, enter the following on the command line in a terminal window:
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sudo apt-get install glade |
The following was installed on my Linux Mint 17.2 computer:
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The following extra packages will be installed: libgladeui-2-6 libgladeui-common Recommended packages: devhelp The following NEW packages will be installed: glade libgladeui-2-6 libgladeui-common |
After installation Glade can be started from the desktop menu under Menu → Programming → Glade as shown in the image below for a Linux Mint computer.
This installed Glade version 3.16.1.
Installing the GTK+ 3 Development Library
GTK development library files must be installed in order to be able to develop and compile GTK applications. Install the GTK+ 3 library files using the following command in a terminal window.
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sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev |
The following files were installed on my Linux Mint 17.2 computer.
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The following extra packages will be installed: libatk-bridge2.0-dev libatk1.0-dev libcairo-script-interpreter2 libcairo2-dev libexpat1-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev libharfbuzz-dev libharfbuzz-gobject0 libice-dev libpango1.0-dev libpcre3-dev libpcrecpp0 libpixman-1-dev libpng12-dev libsm-dev libwayland-dev libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-shm0-dev libxcomposite-dev libxcursor-dev libxdamage-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev libxft-dev libxi-dev libxinerama-dev libxkbcommon-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev x11proto-composite-dev x11proto-damage-dev x11proto-fixes-dev x11proto-randr-dev x11proto-render-dev x11proto-xext-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev zlib1g-dev Suggested packages: libcairo2-doc libglib2.0-doc libgtk-3-doc libice-doc libpango1.0-doc imagemagick libsm-doc libxext-doc Recommended packages: debhelper The following NEW packages will be installed: libatk-bridge2.0-dev libatk1.0-dev libcairo-script-interpreter2 libcairo2-dev libexpat1-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev libharfbuzz-dev libharfbuzz-gobject0 libice-dev libpango1.0-dev libpcre3-dev libpcrecpp0 libpixman-1-dev libpng12-dev libsm-dev libwayland-dev libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-shm0-dev libxcomposite-dev libxcursor-dev libxdamage-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev libxft-dev libxi-dev libxinerama-dev libxkbcommon-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev x11proto-composite-dev x11proto-damage-dev x11proto-fixes-dev x11proto-randr-dev x11proto-render-dev x11proto-xext-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev zlib1g-dev 0 upgraded, 41 newly installed, 0 to remove and 27 not upgraded. Need to get 6 583 kB of archives. |
Installing a Text Editor
After installing GTK 3 and Glade development tools, your computer should be set up for developing applications using GTK+ 3 and Glade. You may also want to install a text editor such as Geany which is very useful when developing software as it provides syntax highlighting for a large number of programming languages as well as other useful functionality for programmers.
Installing Geany from the command line:
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sudo apt-get install geany |
Geany is available on the Linux Mint Menu under Menu → Programming → Geany
I had tried a couple of different web based installation instructions. I just made a bigger mess. You are direct, to the point, and current. I am now in action.
Thank you very much! This got me up and running in no time.
Would GTK ever “automatically” install on my computer? I’m not a developer and my soon to be ex husband is a hacker – is this linked to remote hacking?
libgtk-3-dev is the GTK 3 development library, it usually isn’t installed by default. It hasn’t got anything to do with hacking, but any software that has vulnerabilities could potentially be hacked.