Hi, I'm new here !
I'm running ubutnu 16.04LTS but i'm blocked with the installation of allegro.
I tried this tutorial but i'm unable to find where is located the .so libs for linking with code::blocks

https://emman31.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/ubuntu-12-04-installing-allegro-5-on-codeblocks/comment-page-1/

and if I try to run without linking , it display this :

-------------- Build: Debug in helloallegro (compiler: GNU GCC Compiler)---------------

g++ -L/usr/lib -o bin/Debug/helloallegro obj/Debug/main.o   
obj/Debug/main.o : Dans la fonction « main » :
/home/logan/programmation/cpp/allegro/helloallegro/main.cpp:8 : référence indéfinie vers « al_install_system »
/home/logan/programmation/cpp/allegro/helloallegro/main.cpp:13 : référence indéfinie vers « al_create_display »
/home/logan/programmation/cpp/allegro/helloallegro/main.cpp:19 : référence indéfinie vers « al_map_rgb »
/home/logan/programmation/cpp/allegro/helloallegro/main.cpp:19 : référence indéfinie vers « al_clear_to_color »
/home/logan/programmation/cpp/allegro/helloallegro/main.cpp:20 : référence indéfinie vers « al_flip_display »
/home/logan/programmation/cpp/allegro/helloallegro/main.cpp:21 : référence indéfinie vers « al_rest »
/home/logan/programmation/cpp/allegro/helloallegro/main.cpp:22 : référence indéfinie vers « al_destroy_display »
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Process terminated with status 1 (0 minute(s), 0 second(s))
0 error(s), 0 warning(s) (0 minute(s), 0 second(s))

I'm sorry, i'm really a noob with C++ configuration... I use python, that is easyest for installing libs ...
I searched during one hour but i found nothink...

All three of you are wrong. :/

With Linux variants, you want to use pkg-config to compile and link your program.

That tutorial is out dated as well.

That's wrong. You want 'git checkout master' or 'git checkout 5.2.3'. 5.2.4 is coming out somewhat soon as well.

To compile, you add /usr/local/include to your search directory for the compiler.

To link, you add /usr/local/lib to your search directory for the linker.

To get the compiler options allegro was built with, use :

`pkg-config --cflags allegro5`

and to get the linker options you need to specify, use :

`pkg-config --libs allegro5`

So, a complete invocation with gcc would be :

gcc -Wall -Wextra -o runme `pkg-config --cflags allegro_monolith-5` main.c other.c `pkg-config --libs allegro_monolith-5`

You need to have pkg-config installed when you build allegro.