Re: gambas3.desktop install idea to detect installed toolkits...

[gbWilly <gbWilly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, November 5th, 2025 at 14:56, Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Le 05/11/2025 à 14:45, Benoît Minisini a écrit :
> 
> > Sorry, but this is rather wrong.
> > 
> > The 'gambas3.desktop' is installed with the 'gambas3-ide' package, which
> > is the package for the Gambas3 IDE (obviously).

And yes, you are correct to state that the package gambas3-ide does install the gambas3.desktop. Did you ever istall gambas doeing "apt-get install gambas3-ide" or see it advised anywhere as the manner to install gambas3?

The package gambas3-ide only depends om the minimal packages required to run the gambas-ide itself (yes gb.gui is amongst them), but all components NOT needed by the IDE would NOT be installed and people would have to install all other components separately. It that how you would like it?

Hence there is the metapackage named gambas3, that installs all (but deprecated) components by default. When installing gambas you do "apt-get install gambas3". That will install ALL available toolkits and other components that aren't deprecated, as it is the metapackage (the big one thing that connects all).

I hope that clarifies it a bit better.

gbWilly