Re: OBS

[T Lee Davidson <t.lee.davidson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/13/24 16:36, Gianluigi wrote:
> Hi Lee, gbWilly, Benoit,
>
> from what little I know (very little), in Debian and its derivatives all
> packages (deb with dpkg) are installed like this:
> sudo dpkg -i <pacchetto deb>
> sudo apt-get install -f

One would need to do that only for a .deb binary file that was downloaded to local storage. (gbWilly, please correct me if I am 
wrong on that.)

Usually packages are installed, even on Debian, from a repository with simply:
apt install <package> (or apt-get install <package>)

Perhaps you should try the "Add repository and install manually" instructions, ie. don't "Grab binary packages directly" and 
don't use `dpkg`.


> In fact, if I issue the first command, and then check on synaptic I only
> find version 3.19 and not those from the official repository.
> If I try to select all the gambas3 3.19 entries I get the project, but
> if I try to open it it crashes and the current section closes.

It is weird that you would find version 3.19 at all as the latest official Debian version is 3.18.0.
---
user@debian:~$ apt list -a gambas3
Listing... Done
gambas3/unknown,now 3.19.90+git.20241212.0557abbd-1 all [installed]
gambas3/stable 3.18.0-4 all

---

Perhaps v3.19 is packaged by Ubuntu?


The instructions I followed added a 'home:gambas:master.list' file to /etc/apt/sources.list.d which contains:
---
deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/gambas:/master/Debian_12/ /
---

If you are trying to install on Mint 22, yours should contain:
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deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/gambas:/master/xUbuntu_24.04/ /
---


To get a fresh start, I suggest you remove all of Gambas on your system including 'home:gambas:master.list' if it exists, and 
then install manually with:
echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/gambas:/master/xUbuntu_24.04/ /' | sudo tee 
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:gambas:master.list
curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:gambas:master/xUbuntu_24.04/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee 
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home_gambas_master.gpg > /dev/null
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gambas3

Again, don't use `dpkg`. Use `apt` or `apt-get`.


I hope this helps.


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Lee

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