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What is the general procedure to install development libraries in Ubuntu?

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I am having a pretty tough time installing the latest development libraries of SDL in my Ubuntu 12.04. Last year, I somehow managed to install libsdl 1.2-dev for Ubuntu. As far as I remember, I did it using Synaptic Package Manager. Now, I want to work with the latest SDL libraries.
In the page containing downloads for SDL version 2.0.0 (which is the latest stable version), under Linux section for Development Libraries, it is given

Please contact your distribution maintainer for updates.

It would help me a lot if someone answered these questions:

Why is it so not simple to install dev libraries in Ubuntu?

Can anyone give an exhaustive list of the ways to install these libraries on the system so that one can use them for programming?

It would be helpful if you can give the above answer taking the latest SDL dev libraries as an example. Also what is the procedure to clean all the previous versions from the system while installing the latest versions?

PS: I searched for the libsdl-dev package on Synaptic Package Manager, but it is not showing up the latest version.

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answered 3 Years ago moloy · Accepted Answer

You have to download the source and compile the libs.

You also need some dependencies before compile SDL2. So install these packages first:

sudo apt-get install build-essential xorg-dev libudev-dev libts-dev libgl1-mesa-dev 

libglu1-mesa-dev libasound2-dev libpulse-dev libopenal-dev libogg-dev 

libvorbis-dev libaudiofile-dev libpng12-dev libfreetype6-dev libusb-dev 

libdbus-1-dev zlib1g-dev libdirectfb-dev

Method 1: Source code archive

Now you can go to the libsdl download page and download SDL2-2.0.0.tar.gz, extract the archive (you can extract the archive using tar: tar -xvzf SDL2-2.0.0.tar.gz), cd into the directory created, and run the following commands (don't forget to install the dependencies mentioned above, before starting to compile):
```
./configure

make

sudo make install
```

Method 2: Mercurial repository

Another way to install SDL2 is to download SDL from the mercurial repository online. In order to do this you have to install mercurial first:
```
sudo apt-get install mercurial
```
then download SDL (SDL will be downloaded into the directory you're using the terminal)
```
hg clone http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL
```
now go into the downloaded SDL directory and build & install (don't forget to install the dependencies mentioned above, before starting to compile) the libs by running:
```
cd SDL

./configure

make

sudo make install
```

Don't forget to run:

sudo ldconfig

to update the necessary links and cache to the libraries.

Code::Blocks

Add to

Project > Build options > Compiler settings > Other options > -lSDL2

and to

Project > Build options > Linker settings > Other linker options -lSDL2

Remember to add these to the Project options and not only to Debug or Release settings. Also, if you've already wrongly compiled the sources, remember to Rebuild it (CTRL + F11)