Fast track into Padre development on your Ubuntu 9.04 box 1. You will need a compiler and subversion: sudo apt-get install gcc make subversion 2. You need CPAN. If you a perl developper you know how to configure. If you are new to CPAN, the defaults are fine. You can find more information here [http://search.cpan.org/~andk/CPAN-1.94/lib/CPAN.pm]. You can install modules by typing in a shell: sudo cpan Module::Name 3. Install the modules that are already in Ubuntu 9.04 and meet with the minimal required version: sudo apt-get install perltidy libalien-wxwidgets-perl libwx-perl libfile-which-perl libprobe-perl-perl libfile-homedir-perl libdbi-perl libdbd-sqlite3-perl libparams-util-perl libfile-sharedir-par-perl libprefork-perl libpod-simple-perl libpar-perl libfile-find-rule-perl libclass-adapter-perl libyaml-perl 4. Install the other modules with CPAN (including their dependencies): sudo cpan Module::Install sudo cpan Class::XSAccessor sudo cpan Class::XSAccessor::Array sudo cpan File::pushd (Warn for error: make_arg, make_install_arg != -j3, ./Build -j3 -- NOT OK) sudo cpan ORLite sudo cpan ORLite::Migrate sudo cpan Thread::Queue sudo cpan Text::FindIndent sudo cpan Encode sudo cpan IO::Scalar 5. Check-out Padre into a local code directory (~/Code/Padre on my machine): mkdir -p cd ~/Code/Padre svn co http://svn.perlide.org/padre/trunk 6. Run the development Padre build with: cd trunk/Padre ./dev.pl -h 7. Fix bugs, add features, and drop by #padre on irc.perl.org (you can also post a patch to http://padre.perlide.org/trac/wiki/Tickets). If you want to contribute regularly, please ask for a commit bit!