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GNOME Builder is a free and open-source IDE that is written in C and built using the GTK+ toolkit. As its name suggests it is part of the GNOME core application suite and as such it is in the official repositories of Fedora. It has support for the following programming languages: C, C++, Python, Rust and Vala.

Installation

DNF

To install GNOME Builder merely run:

sudo dnf install gnome-builder

Flatpak

First one needs to install Flatpak with:

sudo dnf install flatpak

then to install GNOME Builder with Flatpak run:

flatpak remote-add --from gnome https://sdk.gnome.org/gnome.flatpakrepo
flatpak remote-add --from gnome-apps https://sdk.gnome.org/gnome-apps.flatpakrepo
flatpak install gnome-apps org.gnome.Builder

after installing Builder run:

flatpak run org.gnome.Builder

to start Builder with Flatpak. To get a desktop configuration file loaded by one's application menus and its associated icon one needs to run:

SHARE="/var/lib/flatpak/app/org.gnome.Builder/current/active/files/share"
sudo ln -sf $SHARE/applications/org.gnome.Builder.desktop /usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Builder-flatpak.desktop
sudo ln -sf $SHARE/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/org.gnome.Builder.png /usr/share/pixmaps/org.gnome.Builder.png