gnome-core-devel software package provides The GNOME Desktop Environment -- development components, you can install in your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install gnome-core-devel
gnome-core-devel is installed in your system.
Make ensure the gnome-core-devel package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep gnome-core-devel *
You will get with gnome-core-devel package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 12 04 lts precise pangolin |
| Section | Development |
| Package | gnome-core-devel |
| Version | 1:3.0+6ubuntu3 |
| Description | The GNOME Desktop Environment -- development components |
| Sub Section | devel |