Binary package “gnome-core-devel” in ubuntu precise
The GNOME Desktop Environment -- development components
These are the development components of the core components of the
GNOME Desktop environment, an intuitive and attractive desktop.
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This meta-package depends on everything you need to build applications
for GNOME, in C, C++ and Python languages; it isn't of much use for
anything else.
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If you want to develop a new application for GNOME, you might want to
look at the gnome-platform-
recommended components.