Here you’ll learn how to download and use the new IDE GNOME-Builder to clone, modify and solve bugs for the GNOME community.

GNOME Builder

For this guide, I use my Fedora Workstation 25 Virtual Machine installed on my localhost using virt-manager, you can see how download and install pressing here.

• GNOME-builder is a integrated IDE for GNOME desktop environment and has support of:
  • Version control systems Git.
  • Developing flatpak applications.

    Flatpak allows the same app to be installed on different Linux distributions

  • Is available for C, C++, Vala, Python, etc. programming languages.

• First, we check our gnome-shel version and then install gnome-builder:

  

  sudo dnf install gnome-builder
  

  If you have some troubles trying to run Builder, just reboot your system.

• Next, install flatpak Recommended:

  sudo dnf install -y flatpak flatpak-libs flatpak-builder
  

• Then, we nee add some dependencies:

  wget https://sdk.gnome.org/keys/gnome-sdk.gpg
  sudo flatpak --user remote-add --gpg-import=gnome-sdk.gpg gnome https://sdk.gnome.org/repo/
  sudo flatpak --user install gnome org.gnome.Sdk 3.24
  sudo flatpak install --user --from https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-apps-nightly/plain/gnome-builder.flatpakref?h=stable
  

  For each of theses commmands, the system will ask you for your password:

  

• Show the list of Flatpak repositories:

  flatpak remote-ls gnome-apps
  

• Install dependencies for Gnome-Builder:

  sudo flatpak run org.gnome.Builder
  

  It takes a few 30 minutes to install dependencies.

  

• Then, run builder:

  

• Then, you can clone any repository using the url of the project you want to clone. You can find a complete list of GNOME project here. I choose polari.

  So, click on clone button, paste the project url and go.

  

• Then, you will have your project cloned into gnome-builder:

  

• Finally, you can run the application (in this case is Polari IRC):

  

Other functionalities

• You can clone any repository, for example I use my own repo.

  

  Then, you can edit your files and make pull/push on the project:

  

Listing cloned projects

• Each time that you start gnome builder, you can see the list of cloned projects.