# Compiling Gplates from the souce code on Ubuntu 20.04

**URL:** https://discourse.gplates.org/t/compiling-gplates-from-the-souce-code-on-ubuntu-20-04/235
**Category:** Q&A
**Created:** [30 November 2020 11:30 UTC](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/compiling-gplates-from-the-souce-code-on-ubuntu-20-04/235 "2020-11-30T11:30:45Z")
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### Author: ![john.cannon](https://discourse.gplates.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3e96dc/32.png) [@john.cannon](https://discourse.gplates.org/u/john.cannon)
#### Post date: [25 March 2021 01:43 UTC](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/compiling-gplates-from-the-souce-code-on-ubuntu-20-04/235/7 "2021-03-25T01:43:31Z")

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Hi Thomas,

Did you install from the [Focal (20.04) DEB package](https://sourceforge.net/projects/gplates/files/pygplates/beta-revision-28/ubuntu/) or compile from the [source code link](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/compiling-gplates-from-the-souce-code-on-ubuntu-20-04/235/2) in this thread?

If it’s the source code link then that’s only meant for GPlates (the current PyGPlates can be found [here](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/pygplates-supports-python-3/165)).

I haven’t used Windows Subsystem for Linux yet, but I’ll give that a try

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