Setting up a Programming Environment in Linux

Among others you should also have gprof and valgrind ( or something in it's class ).

Seconding swilliams, I'd say the basics are:

• an editor or IDE (I use vim),
• a compiler (almost certainly gcc)
• make, or maybe some other similar tool like ant if you want
• a debugger (almost certainly gdb)
• source control (I use subversion)
• Standard unix utilities like grep and diff, but you have those already

Other than that, I'd say install as you go. Linux is more about little utilities that each do one thing than monolithic development environments that do everything. So if you find yourself needing something, you can always just install it, be that thing a memory profiler, a documentation generator, a bigger/smaller/more different editor, et cetera, et cetera.

Another great utility that you can use are *nix man pages. Each function in the C library has an associated man page.

For example:

man printf

man strncpy

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