Ubuntu - Install CodeBlocks

To be able to install CodeBlocks in Ubuntu 18.04

Step 1: Download codeblocks software from the website: http://www.codeblocks.org/

Step 2: Downloding it from sourceforge website:

$ wget -c https://excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net/project/codeblocks/Binaries/17.12/Linux/Debian%20stable/codeblocks_17.12-1_amd64_stable.tar.xz
--2018-09-20 11:48:57--  https://excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net/project/codeblocks/Binaries/17.12/Linux/Debian%20stable/codeblocks_17.12-1_amd64_stable.tar.xz
Resolving excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net (excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net)... 202.153.32.19
Connecting to excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net (excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net)|202.153.32.19|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 13759596 (13M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘codeblocks_17.12-1_amd64_stable.tar.xz’

codeblocks_17.12-1_amd64_stable.tar. 100%[===================================================================>]  13.12M   155KB/s    in 96s     

2018-09-20 11:50:41 (140 KB/s) - ‘codeblocks_17.12-1_amd64_stable.tar.xz’ saved [13759596/13759596]

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Step 3: Uncompress the tar archive:

$ tar xvf codeblocks_17.12-1_amd64_stable.tar.xz 

codeblocks_17.12-1_amd64.buildinfo

codeblocks_17.12-1_amd64.changes

codeblocks_17.12-1_amd64.deb

codeblocks-common_17.12-1_all.deb

codeblocks-contrib_17.12-1_amd64.deb

codeblocks-contrib-common_17.12-1_all.deb

codeblocks-dev_17.12-1_amd64.deb

codeblocks-headers_17.12-1_all.deb

codeblocks-libwxcontrib0_17.12-1_amd64.deb

codeblocks-wxcontrib-dev_17.12-1_amd64.deb

codeblocks-wxcontrib-headers_17.12-1_all.deb

libcodeblocks0_17.12-1_amd64.deb

libwxsmithlib0_17.12-1_amd64.deb

libwxsmithlib0-dev_17.12-1_amd64.deb

wxsmith-dev_17.12-1_amd64.deb

wxsmith-headers_17.12-1_all.deb

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Step 4: There are numerous files here. Let us install them in the following order:

1. sudo dpkg -i codeblocks-common_17.12-1_all.deb
2. sudo dpkg -i wxsmith-headers_17.12-1_all.deb
3. sudo apt-get install -f
4. sudo dpkg -i libcodeblocks0_17.12-1_amd64.deb
5. sudo dpkg -i libwxsmithlib0_17.12-1_amd64.deb
6. sudo dpkg -i libwxsmithlib0-dev_17.12-1_amd64.deb
7. sudo dpkg -i wxsmith-dev_17.12-1_amd64.deb
8. sudo apt-get install -f
9. sudo dpkg -i codeblocks-libwxcontrib0_17.12-1_amd64.deb
10. sudo dpkg -i codeblocks-wxcontrib-dev_17.12-1_amd64.deb
11. sudo dpkg -i codeblocks-wxcontrib-headers_17.12-1_all.deb
12. sudo dpkg -i codeblocks-headers_17.12-1_all.deb
13. sudo dpkg -i codeblocks-dev_17.12-1_amd64.deb
14. sudo dpkg -i codeblocks-contrib-common_17.12-1_all.deb
15. sudo dpkg -i codeblocks_17.12-1_amd64.deb
16. sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-module:i386

To check the installation codeblocks:

$ which codeblocks
/usr/bin/codeblocks

To run codeblocks:
$ codeblocks