Customizing Eeebuntu GNU/Linux 3.0 Standard into a development environment

I documented previously the Eeebuntu GNU/Linux 3.0 Standard installation. My intent now is to document the process to make this into a development environment. Since this is an ongoing process, it is possible that I will make new entries that supplement this one, but, for now I hope that this will make the process repeatable and potentially automated.

An important note is that I used the Synaptic Package Manager instead of the command line apt-get package handling utility, so, the commands I'll place bellow maybe won't lead to the result I currently have. This is nevertheless an attempt to automate the process and for this a command line is always better than a list of steps to be performed in some GUI tool.

Install latest Emacs, which is the basis for the majority of text editing and Lisp development.

 sudo apt-get install emacs-snapshot-gtk emacs-snapshot-el

Several version control systems:

 sudo apt-get install git-core git-doc git-gui git-svn subversion

Common Lisp implementations and support for its development:

 sudo apt-get install cl-swank cl-asdf common-lisp-controller sbcl sbcl-doc sbcl-source slime

Standard C++ development support (maybe I should install boost also).

 sudo apt-get install g++ g++-multilib gdb gdb-doc

Python 2.6 development environment (in the future I will probably install the latest Python 3.x also):

 sudo apt-get install idle-python2.6 python2.6-doc python2.6-examples

For future reference I leave here the log of the day when I picked and installed the tools for software development environment.

Commit Log for Fri Sep 18 00:25:50 2009

Installed the following packages: 
blt (2.4z-4.1) 
cl-asdf (1.111-1) 
cl-swank (1:20080223-2) 
common-lisp-controller (6.17) 
emacs-snapshot (1:20090320-1ubuntu1) 
emacs-snapshot-bin-common (1:20090320-1ubuntu1) 
emacs-snapshot-el (1:20090320-1ubuntu1) 
emacs-snapshot-gtk (1:20090320-1ubuntu1) 
g++ (4:4.3.3-1ubuntu1) 
g++-4.3 (4.3.3-5ubuntu4) 
g++-4.3-multilib (4.3.3-5ubuntu4) 
g++-multilib (4:4.3.3-1ubuntu1) 
gcc-4.3-multilib (4.3.3-5ubuntu4) 
gcc-multilib (4:4.3.3-1ubuntu1) 
gdb-doc (6.8-1) 
git-core (1:1.6.0.4-1ubuntu2) 
git-doc (1:1.6.0.4-1ubuntu2) 
git-gui (1:1.6.0.4-1ubuntu2) 
git-svn (1:1.6.0.4-1ubuntu2) 
gitk (1:1.6.0.4-1ubuntu2) 
glibc-doc (2.9-4ubuntu6) 
glibc-source (2.9-4ubuntu6) 
idle-python2.6 (2.6.2-0ubuntu1) 
lib64gcc1 (1:4.3.3-5ubuntu4) 
lib64gomp1 (4.3.3-5ubuntu4) 
lib64stdc++6 (4.3.3-5ubuntu4) 
libapr1 (1.2.12-5ubuntu0.1) 
libaprutil1 (1.2.12+dfsg-8ubuntu0.3) 
libc6-amd64 (2.9-4ubuntu6) 
libc6-dev-amd64 (2.9-4ubuntu6) 
libdigest-sha1-perl (2.11-2build2) 
liberror-perl (0.17-1) 
libpq5 (8.3.7-1) 
libstdc++6-4.3-dev (4.3.3-5ubuntu4) 
libsvn-perl (1.5.4dfsg1-1ubuntu2.1) 
libsvn1 (1.5.4dfsg1-1ubuntu2.1) 
python-tk (2.6.2-0ubuntu1) 
python2.6-doc (2.6.2-0ubuntu1) 
python2.6-examples (2.6.2-0ubuntu1) 
realpath (1.12) 
sbcl (1:1.0.18.0-2) 
sbcl-doc (1:1.0.18.0-2) 
sbcl-source (1:1.0.18.0-2) 
slime (1:20080223-2) 
subversion (1.5.4dfsg1-1ubuntu2.1) 
tcl (8.4.16-2) 
tcl8.4 (8.4.19-2) 
tcl8.5 (8.5.6-3) 
tk (8.4.16-2) 
tk8.4 (8.4.19-2) 
tk8.5 (8.5.6-3)

I have also some more software that currently is installed in my$HOME:

• Sun JDK 1.6 – for Java development and building from source, which I currently use mainly for ArgoUML and Armed Bear Common Lisp (ABCL);
• Eclipse Ganymede (Eclipse 3.4, TODO, update to Eclipse Galileo which is 3.5) – which I use for ArgoUML development;
• PLT Scheme – to try out Scheme;
• Second Interpreter of Scheme Code (SISC) – ditto;
• ArgoUML – this is both installed and checked out from Subversion;
• Armed Bear Common Lisp (ABCL) – a Common Lisp implementation for the JVM checked out from Subversion repository.