KDevelop is a free and open source integrated development environment for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, macOS and Windows. You can also use this app as a text editor for any language. It mainly supports C, C++, Python, PHP, QML and JavaScript languages and Git, Bazaar, Subversion, CVS, Mercurial (hg) and Perforce version control systems. Not only these, you can also extend its features via extensible plugin framework. It comes with syntax highlighting, text-based code completion, CMake and QMake build systems, quick code navigation, Unit test integration, debugger support, Code formatter, external script support and more. It is based on KDevelop Platform and the Qt libraries.
Install KDevelop IDE on Ubuntu Linux
KDevelop IDE is available from the default Ubuntu repositories and you can install it via the terminal application. Open the terminal and run below KDevelop IDE apt installation command.
sudo apt-get install kdevelop
You can also uninstall it via
sudo apt remove kdevelop
Install KDevelop IDE via AppImage
Download KDevelop IDE in the portable .AppImage file format and save in your Downloads folder. Open terminal software and run below commands.
cd Downloads
sudo chmod +x ~ KDevelop-5.6.1-x86_64.AppImage
./KDevelop-5.6.1-x86_64.AppImage
Here “KDevelop-5.6.1-x86_64.AppImage” is the downloaded file name. You can change above code based on your file name.
Install KDevelop IDE via Flatpak:
Install flatpak and flathub in your system and restart it. In terminal run below KDevelop IDE flatpak command.
flatpak install flathub org.kde.kdevelop
You can run kdevelop via
flatpak run org.kde.kdevelop
And uninstall it via
sudo flatpak uninstall org.kde.kdevelop
That’s it.
