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* Install a recent version of Ubuntu. The steps in this document have been tested with Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10, and 8.04.
*: ''(It is beyond the scope of this document, but VirtualBox and VMWare provide a great and relatively easy solution to getting a clean build environment up and running within 30 minutes.)''
* 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. Note the [[Programming Guidelines|programming guidelines for GRAMPS]].
* Install the tools we'll need:
sudo apt-get install build-essential gnome-common libglib2.0-dev subversion
