[SOLVED] Ada Programming Language - Installation
 

The COVID-19 pandemic surprisingly prompted a series of articles related to computer languages. The most prominent computer language reviewed was COBOL. There was also a series of "second" generation articles that reviewed other computer languages. The one that caught my attention was the Ada Computer Language.

I went ahead and installed it. Have not done anything with it other than successfully run the "Hello World" program. Nevertheless, I thought it would be helpful to review how this program is installed. Overall, it is pretty straight forward.

I am running Linux Mint 19.3 and the Ada programming language is available through the Mint repository under "Gnat" and "Gnat-GPS".

I can't remember whether the "first" Gnat option has to be installed from the repository first or not, prior to installing "Gnat-8". "Gnat-8" is the installed version.

The installation of "Gnat-GPS" appeared, at first, to be successful; but subsequently it turned out that two plugins are not installed. Whether they are important or not is not known. However, with a bit of research these plugins were located and successfully installed.

The installation of the missing plugins required the installation of "pip". How To Install PIP to Manage Python Packages in Linux.

The first plugin was: "pep8". Installed first from the Mint repository then with: "sudo pip install --upgrade pep8"

The second plugin that failed to load is "jedi". Resolved by "pip install jedi".

ArchLinux appears to have a pretty good Ada reference source.

Ran across this September 10, 2019 article: Why Ada Is The Language You Want To Be Programming Your Systems With

Should anyone wish to use the Ada programming language, I hope that this post will prove useful.