How to Install Development Tools on Ubuntu, Debian & Mint

Development tools are required to install on your system if you have planned to build software. It’s also useful for building packages on your system. Development tools contain a few general useful tools like GCC, g++, make, libc6-dev, and dpkg-dev packages. You need to install build-essential on Ubuntu and LinuxMint systems which include all other required packages as dependencies.

Install Development Tools on Ubuntu, Debian and Mint

The development tools packages are available under default apt repositories for most of the Ubuntu-based systems. Use the following commands to install the development tools package on your Ubuntu and Linuxmint systems.

sudo apt update 
sudo apt install build-essential 

Check Installed Versions

After successful installation of the build-essential package on your system, let’s check installed versions of important binaries.

Check the version of GCC on your system:

gcc --version 

Output
gcc (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04) 9.3.0
Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Also check the make binary version:

make --version

Output
GNU Make 4.2.1
Built for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Copyright (C) 1988-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 

Conclusion

This quick how-to quite helps you to install development tools on your Ubuntu, Debian and other Debian-based Linux systems.