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

[Martin Cristia <tercoide@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/28/25 10:03, Bruce Steers wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2025 at 12:59, Bruce Steers <bsteers4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>     I just downloaded and set up ubuntu plucky for you :)
>
>     I tried installing gambas the OBS way and had no problems.
>
>     I then ran apt modernize-sources and then had the same problem.
>     seems the gpg signature does not get added during the modernize
>     and has to be done manually
>
>     So the fix...
>
>     Open the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:gambas:master.sources
>     the last line says...
>     Signed By:
>
>     change it to...
>     Signed By: /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home_gambas_stable.gpg
>
>     providing you have the file
>     /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home_gambas_stable.gpg
>
>     That fixed it for me
>
>     sudo apt update
>     sudo apt install gambas3
>
>     BruceS
>
>
> Oops i missed a - between Signed and By
>
> Signed-By: /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home_gambas_stable.gpg
>
> BruceS
Thanks for the effort :(

Cleaned the system, fixed the apt dirs by hand. Still does not work

It seems that Ubuntu don't want by-hand software installations. It is 
chinese inside there.  And I am a senior programmer, picture a newbie 
trying to use a Gambas compiled software in a System76 laptop!

martin@martin-Alienware-m17-R5-AMD:~$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu plucky-security InRelease
Hit:2 
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/gambas:/stable/xUbuntu_25.04 
InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
martin@martin-Alienware-m17-R5-AMD:~$ sudo apt-get clean
martin@martin-Alienware-m17-R5-AMD:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Solving dependencies... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
martin@martin-Alienware-m17-R5-AMD:~$ sudo apt --fix-broken install
Summary:
  Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0
martin@martin-Alienware-m17-R5-AMD:~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo 
apt-get upgrade
Hit:1 
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/gambas:/stable/xUbuntu_25.04 
InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu plucky-security InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
martin@martin-Alienware-m17-R5-AMD:~$ sudo apt install gambas3
Solving dependencies... Error!
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Unsatisfied dependencies:
 gambas3-gb-db-odbc : Depends: libodbc2 (>= 2.3.1) but it is not 
installable
 gambas3-gb-db2-odbc : Depends: libodbc2 (>= 2.3.1) but it is not 
installable
 gam