September 2011
Intermediate to advanced
768 pages
15h 18m
English
Content preview from Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt, 2nd Edition
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Appendix D: Alan’s Quick Start Guide to Debian for Programmers
This article is a summary of steps I take to set up a new Debian desktop for development. It is useful for the developer who is new to the Debian Linux desktop environment and wants to take advantage of the apt system.
After trying out a number of different Linux distributions, I currently use a Debian Testing KDE installer,1 which I find ideal for my purposes: C++ / Java / Python / Qt / KDE development.
Question
1. There is a ridiculously huge number of packages available—many that are hard to find from other distributions. This means that you can grab already-compiled ...