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Running a development version of Gramps

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The following describes one possible scenario for building and running the latest development version of GRAMPS on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28operating_system%29 Ubuntu]:
* Install a recent version {{man warn|1=Note|2=It is beyond the scope of this document, but [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28operating_system%29 UbuntuVirtualBox VirtualBox]and [http://en. The steps in this document have been tested with Ubuntu 7wikipedia.04, 7.10, 8.04, 10.04 org/wiki/VMware VMWare] provide a great and relatively easy solution to getting a clean build environment up and 10.10running within 30 minutes on Linux.}}
{{man warn|1=Note|2=It is beyond the scope * Install a recent version of Ubuntu. ''The steps in this documenthave been tested with Ubuntu 7.04, but [http://en7.wikipedia10, 8.org/wiki/VirtualBox VirtualBox] 04, 10.04 and [http://en10.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware VMWare] provide a great and relatively easy solution to getting a clean build environment up and running within 30 minutes on Linux10.}}''
* Install a text editor if you plan on modifying the GRAMPS source. You can use any text editor such as gedit, kate, or sourcenav (<tt>sudo apt-get install sourcenav</tt>), erik4, SPE, or [http://www.eclipse.org Eclipse] with the python plugin. Instructions on [[Development using Eclipse and Pydev|installing and configuring Eclipse for GRAMPS development]]. Note the [[Programming Guidelines|programming guidelines for GRAMPS]].
 * Install the tools we'll will need:
sudo apt-get install build-essential gnome-common libglib2.0-dev subversion
 
* Create a directory for the Gramps source:
cd ~
mkdir gramps
cd gramps
 
* Get the latest version of GRAMPS:
svn co https://gramps.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gramps/trunk
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