Re: Can we get back to Ubuntu's PPA ?

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

On 5/27/25 5:27 PM, Martin Cristia wrote:
> On 5/27/25 18:13, gbWilly wrote:
> > On Tuesday, May 27th, 2025 at 22:57, Martin Cristia <tercoide@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > I am done today. Spent hours trying to go from Master to Stable but
> > > nothing seems to work. Opensue build gives a bunch of errors; installing
> > > from sources has no Ubuntu 25.04 instructions (24.04 won't work), and
> > > gbWilly binaries and instructions from GitLab's TAR.xz won't work either.
> > >
> > > What was wrong with PPA's ???
> > >
> > > It seems that one needs to be a system expert to install it nowadays.
> > $ sudo apt-get purge gambas3
> > $ sudo apt-get autoremove
> > $ sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:gambas:master.list
> > $ sudo echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/gambas:/stable/Debian_12/ /' | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ 
> > home:gambas:stable.list
> > $ curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:gambas:stable/Debian_12/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee / 
> > etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home_gambas_stable.gpg > /dev/null
> > $ sudo apt-get update
> > $ sudo apt-get upgrade
> > $ sudo apt-get install gambas3
> >
> > Enjoy...
> >
> > gbWilly
> Thanks Willy, but that did not worked:
>
> martin@martin-Alienware-m17-R5-AMD:~$ sudo apt-get purge gambas3
> [sudo] password for martin:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to locate package gambas3

If you compiled Gambas3 from the Master branch and installed it with `sudo make install`, then of course the package manager 
cannot find it. To remove it, you will need to run `sudo make uninstall` from the source code directory from which it was 
compiled and installed.


[snip]

> martin@martin-Alienware-m17-R5-AMD:~$ sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:gambas:master.list
> rm: cannot remove '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:gambas:master.list': No such file or directory

So, yes, it appears that Gambas was compiled & installed and not installed from a repository with the package manager.


> martin@martin-Alienware-m17-R5-AMD:~$ sudo echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/gambas:/stable/ 
> Debian_12/ /' | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:gambas:stable.list
> tee: '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:gambas:stable.list': Permission denied

That command should have another 'sudo' in it:
sudo echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/gambas:/stable/Debian_12/ /' | sudo tee 
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:gambas:stable.list


[snip alot of stuff]

> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

By continuing after you had errors, you have compounded the problem. You will now need to remove the broken Gambas installation 
that the package manager attempted:
sudo apt-get purge gambas3

and then remove the compiled version with `sudo make uninstall` as I mentioned above. Then, you can try to install it from a 
repository with the package manager using the steps gbWilly provided; minus of course "sudo apt-get purge gambas3" because you 
have now already done that.


--
Lee

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