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[DeadH34d]

First off, I'd like to say hello everybody! I just downloaded Mandriva 2009 One today, and finally have it installed. Now, I want to install Dev C++, and I've got the setup.exe on my desktop, but when I try to run it and install the program, it asks what I want to open it with. Can anybody help? Thanks in advance all.

EDIT: I think I found a solution. I need Wine, correct?

[Segfault]

Welcome to the forums!

Wine should be used only if there is no native Linux application available. I'd recommend opening up your package manager and looking what's available from repositories.

Mandriva Package Management

[reed9]

Agreed. There is no reason to try and run windows programs unless there is no other option, and there there are a wealth of development tools for linux.

IDEs for Linux

And of course many people swear by emacs or vim for coding.

[DeadH34d]

Well, the thing is, I have no internet access on my Linux computer. I've had to do everything on my laptop and transfer via a 4G stick. How difficult will it be to transfer these files to my Linux computer and install them? Thanks for the links all. Thinking of downloading Amy. Anybody ever use it?

[reed9]

The link for Amy on the website I posted is broken, and I couldn't find anything on it with a quick websearch, so I'm guessing it's old and unmaintained.

Anjuta is well maintained and full featured, and integrates well with the GNOME desktop. Are you using the GNOME or KDE version of Mandriva?

If you want a small fast basic IDE, you might try geany.

Vi or Vim is I would wager comes preinstalled on Mandriva. At least I should hope so. They have a steep learning curve, but are very popular and powerful.

It is possible to download packages to a usb stick and install them. The tricky part is making sure you have all the dependencies as well. Unlike Windows, linux packages don't bundle their own versions of different libraries in each binary package, but instead uses common shared libraries. A big part of what a distribution does is make share all the software packages are built against the correct versions of the various libraries and everything works well together. Something large like Anjuta, that integrated with a Desktop Environment will have a lot of dependencies, whereas something small like Geany will have very few, and generally be easier to do that kind of manual install.

You'll need to download packages build for the version of Mandriva that you're using. I know with the *buntus and Debian, they have easy to navigate online access to their packages, making it simple to download manually. Not sure if that is the case with Mandriva.

[teenytinylinuxgrl]

Thinking of downloading Amy.

I'm not that kind of girl!!

LOL, I can't resist a good pun!! Sorrrry. That was just too good to pass up!

Amy

[DeadH34d]

haha, a good pun nonetheless.

I ended up going with C-Forge. Oh, and I'm using the KDE version. I've got an Ubuntu CD coming in the mail, would that be easier to start with you think?

[teenytinylinuxgrl]

Oh, YES! Ubuntu is super-easy, fully featured, and has some of the best support for most hardware, so I've read. I love mine!

Amy

[DeadH34d]

Well, in 6-10 weeks I'll have my CD... haha.

[reed9]

Mandriva isn't bad, but I agree that Ubuntu and other Debian based distros have always felt more intuitive and easy to use. The biggest advantage to Ubuntu, in my opinion is the excellent support community and documentation for Ubuntu.

If you have $15 or so to spend, you can find a linux magazine with the Ubuntu 9.04 disc in almost any major magazine shop or bookstore, rather than wait 8 weeks.

Neither Ubuntu nor Mandriva to my knowledge come pre-isntalled with a lot of development tools, such as a compiler, linker, etc. Since you were asking about IDEs, I assume you would be looking to write and/or compile code, so you'd probably want all of that. If you have $6 bucks, you can buy a DVD disc, from places like www.ondisc.com which I believe does include the development tools.