How to install Flutter on Ubuntu Linux

Lets Install Flutter for Ubuntu Linux development. As a open source project, we can install the flutter SDK from GitHub.

The prerequisites

In order to clone the repository we have to use git . In case your SUSE doesn’t know what it is, let’s install it with snap . Also recommend to have Visual Code /Atom for editing the code.

The following post may help you to install VS Code on Ubuntu

• How to install VS Code in Ubuntu Linux

Install the git

sudo snap install git

Clone the repo

Get the latest stable version from GitHub repository or alternatively can download from flutter site

git clone https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git -b stable --depth 1

Use the -b option to clone the stable version

Setup the path variable

You also need to set the path variable using the shell command as follows.

export PATH="$PATH:pwd/flutter/bin"

Call the Doctor

run Flutter doctor command to inspect status of your Flutter SDK

Android IOS development

For Android you have to install the Android Studio for development tool support which can be download from official website.

For official documentation visit flutter.dev