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Installing and Using GNUstep and Objective-C on Linux

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One of the great things about Linux is the shear number of different distributions available to choose from. This is the result of the power of open source software combined with vibrant communities of dedicated developers who believe passionately about this powerful and flexible operating system. It also gives the end user the opportunity to find a Linux distribution that best suits their needs (and, perhaps, just a few headaches during the decision process).
Unfortunately, this diversity can prove to be a considerable obstacle to an author of a book trying to write a chapter on how to install a particular software package on Linux. The sheer diversity of the Linux marketplace makes providing instructions for every available Linux distribution beyond the scape of this book such as this.   Instead this chapter will look at one distribution for which pre-built packages are available (Ubuntu Linux) and then provide an overview of how to build the necessary packages from sources on a platform for which pre-built packages are not available (Red Hat Enterprise Linux). It is anticipated that these steps should ultimately provide a path to Objective-C development on the majority of Linux distributions on the market today.
== Package Requirements ==

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