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Development Tools

There are many development tools available for Ubuntu. A selection of these are described below.

Version control systems

Bazaar-NG

Bazaar-NG is a decentralised version control system used for Ubuntu development

  1. Install the bzr and the bzr-gtk packages.

  2. Press Applications → Programming → Olive bazaar Branch Manager to start the Bazaar-GTK graphical interface or to use the command line interface open a terminal and type: 

    bzr

Other version control systems

  • Subversion (SVN) is a version control system intended as a replacement for CVS.

  • CVS is also available, however you should give strong consideration to using other version control systems for new projects.

Other tools

  • Glade is a user interface designer for building GNOME and GTK applications.

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