Re: Gambas packages for Debian 13

[gbWilly <gbWilly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, March 27th, 2025 at 12:36, Bruce Steers <bsteers4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I guess using gambas3* makes it try to install all packages including the older ones.

> all packages now seem to be installing with just using "apt install gambas3" so i guess not an issue but the old stuff still listed does not seem right and cause the above error.

What you see in the image you send is normal. Synaptic shows the highest available version of packages from all repositories it can reach.
Official debian packages are not packaged according to gambas specifications (see gambas wiki or osb recipes for that), so it has packages that we don't have.

So, we providegb-jit and gb-hash functionality as part of gb-runtime for example.
The gb-gtk3-wayland and gb-gtk3-x11 functionality are part of gb-gtk3 package, same goes for qt6 counterparts.
gb-examples and gb-devel are long gone (see wiki on packaging for how long), the latter has been replaced by the gb-dev-tools package.

So, in short osb offers the same but in less packages. You trying to install the, in osb not existing packages (as that is what you tried with *), will indeed give conflicts as now multiple packages lay a claim on providing gb-jit of gb-hash for example. And that is simply not possible.

So, in short just stick to apt-get install gambas3 and don't go freewheeling ;-)