In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Flutter on Ubuntu by using snapd. With Flutter, you can create natively compiled, multi-platform applications from a single codebase, which can be used on any device.
Prerequisites
Before you begin this guide you'll need the following:
- A local development environment. You can check out the following tutorial here...
- Installed Android Studio. You can check out the following tutorial here...
Step 1 — Install additional required packages for Linux development
Run the following command to update your current package index:
sudo apt-get install clang cmake ninja-build pkg-config libgtk-3-dev liblzma-dev
You'll see output similar to the following output:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
gir1.2-harfbuzz-0.0 icu-devtools libatk-bridge2.0-dev libatk1.0-dev libatspi2.0-dev libblkid-dev libcairo-script-interpreter2 libcairo2-dev libdatrie-dev libdbus-1-dev libegl-dev libegl1-mesa-dev
libepoxy-dev libexpat1-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype-dev libfreetype6-dev libfribidi-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libgl-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libgles-dev libgles1 libglib2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev-bin
libglvnd-dev libglx-dev libgraphite2-dev libharfbuzz-dev libharfbuzz-gobject0 libicu-dev libmount-dev libopengl-dev libpango1.0-dev libpcre16-3 libpcre2-dev libpcre2-posix2 libpcre3-dev libpcre32-3
libpcrecpp0v5 libpixman-1-dev libpng-dev libpng-tools libselinux1-dev libsepol1-dev libthai-dev libwayland-bin libwayland-dev libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-shm0-dev libxcomposite-dev libxcursor-dev
libxdamage-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev libxft-dev libxi-dev libxinerama-dev libxkbcommon-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev libxtst-dev pango1.0-tools uuid-dev wayland-protocols x11proto-input-dev
x11proto-randr-dev x11proto-record-dev x11proto-xext-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev zlib1g-dev
Suggested packages:
libcairo2-doc libdatrie-doc freetype2-doc libgirepository1.0-dev libglib2.0-doc libgraphite2-utils libgtk-3-doc icu-doc libpango1.0-doc libthai-doc libwayland-doc libxext-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gir1.2-harfbuzz-0.0 icu-devtools libatk-bridge2.0-dev libatk1.0-dev libatspi2.0-dev libblkid-dev libcairo-script-interpreter2 libcairo2-dev libdatrie-dev libdbus-1-dev libegl-dev libegl1-mesa-dev
libepoxy-dev libexpat1-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype-dev libfreetype6-dev libfribidi-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libgl-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libgles-dev libgles1 libglib2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev-bin
libglvnd-dev libglx-dev libgraphite2-dev libgtk-3-dev libharfbuzz-dev libharfbuzz-gobject0 libicu-dev libmount-dev libopengl-dev libpango1.0-dev libpcre16-3 libpcre2-dev libpcre2-posix2 libpcre3-dev
libpcre32-3 libpcrecpp0v5 libpixman-1-dev libpng-dev libpng-tools libselinux1-dev libsepol1-dev libthai-dev libwayland-bin libwayland-dev libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-shm0-dev libxcomposite-dev
libxcursor-dev libxdamage-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev libxft-dev libxi-dev libxinerama-dev libxkbcommon-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev libxtst-dev pango1.0-tools uuid-dev wayland-protocols
x11proto-input-dev x11proto-randr-dev x11proto-record-dev x11proto-xext-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev zlib1g-dev
0 upgraded, 72 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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After this operation, 108 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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Step 2 — Install the Flutter Package
Run the following command to update your current package index:
sudo snap install flutter --classic
You'll see output similar to the following output:
Downloading Linux x64 Dart SDK from Flutter engine e85ea0e79c6d894c120cda4ee8ee10fe6745e187...
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Building flutter tool...
Upgrading engine...
Downloading Material fonts... 1,398ms
Downloading Gradle Wrapper... 41ms
Downloading android-arm-profile/linux-x64 tools... 1,275ms
Downloading android-arm-release/linux-x64 tools... 1,100ms
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Downloading android-x64-profile/linux-x64 tools... 1,641ms
Downloading android-x64-release/linux-x64 tools... 963ms
Downloading android-x86 tools... 4.3s
Downloading android-x64 tools... 4.0s
Downloading android-arm tools... 3.7s
Downloading android-arm-profile tools... 2,720ms
Downloading android-arm-release tools... 1,511ms
Downloading android-arm64 tools... 3.9s
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Downloading android-arm64-release tools... 1,876ms
Downloading android-x64-profile tools... 2,904ms
Downloading android-x64-release tools... 1,806ms
Downloading android-x86-jit-release tools... 3.0s
Downloading Web SDK... 12.9s
Downloading CanvasKit... 5.6s
Downloading package sky_engine... 430ms
Downloading flutter_patched_sdk tools... 2,217ms
Downloading flutter_patched_sdk_product tools... 1,409ms
Downloading linux-x64 tools... 9.8s
Downloading linux-x64/linux-x64-flutter-gtk tools... 4.9s
Downloading linux-x64-profile/linux-x64-flutter-gtk tools... 3.1s
Downloading linux-x64-release/linux-x64-flutter-gtk tools... 3.0s
Downloading linux-x64/font-subset tools... 675msStep 3 — Run Flutter Doctor
In this step, we are going to make sure everything is set up correctly using flutter doctor.
Run the following command to make sure everything is setup correctly:
flutter doctor -v
You'll see output similar to the following output:
[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.0.5, on Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS 5.4.0-122-generic, locale en_ZA.UTF-8)
• Flutter version 3.0.5 at /opt/flutter
• Upstream repository https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git
• Framework revision f1875d570e (3 weeks ago), 2022-07-13 11:24:16 -0700
• Engine revision e85ea0e79c
• Dart version 2.17.6
• DevTools version 2.12.2
[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 30.0.3)
• Android SDK at /home/sheldona/Android/Sdk
• Platform android-32, build-tools 30.0.3
• Java binary at: /snap/android-studio/123/android-studio/jre/bin/java
• Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.12+0-b1504.28-7817840)
• All Android licenses accepted.
[✓] Chrome - develop for the web
• Chrome at google-chrome
[✓] Linux toolchain - develop for Linux desktop
• clang version 10.0.0-4ubuntu1
• cmake version 3.16.3
• ninja version 1.10.0
• pkg-config version 0.29.1
[✓] Android Studio (version 3.5)
• Android Studio at /opt/android-studio
• Flutter plugin can be installed from:
🔨 https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9212-flutter
• Dart plugin can be installed from:
🔨 https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/6351-dart
• Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_202-release-1483-b49-5587405)
[✓] Android Studio (version 2021.2)
• Android Studio at /snap/android-studio/123/android-studio
• Flutter plugin version 69.0.2
• Dart plugin version 212.5744
• Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.12+0-b1504.28-7817840)
[✓] VS Code
• VS Code at /snap/code/current
• Flutter extension can be installed from:
🔨 https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Dart-Code.flutter
[✓] Connected device (2 available)
• Linux (desktop) • linux • linux-x64 • Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS 5.4.0-122-generic
• Chrome (web) • chrome • web-javascript • Google Chrome 103.0.5060.134
[✓] HTTP Host Availability
• All required HTTP hosts are available
• No issues found!Step 4 - Accept Android Licenses
In this step, we are going to accept Android licenses
flutter doctor --android-licenses
If prompted, press the Y key followed by enter to accept each license it presents.
Step 5 — Developing projects for Linux
In order to develop Flutter projects for Linux, you must update the dev branch of Flutter and enable the toolchain
Run the following command to switch to the dev branch
flutter channel dev
Run the following command to update Flutter to the latest dev branch revision:
flutter upgrade
Run the following command to enable the Linux toolchain
flutter config --enable-linux-desktop
Conclusion
In this article, you should have installed Flutter and verified your installation.
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