[Gambas-user] rpmbuild and install package

[D. L. Fox]

Howdy, everyone. I've been using Gambas for about a month but only 
joined the list about a week ago. I've really enjoyed playing around 
with Gambas.

I used Windows (as well as Linux) and was a VB programmer (among other 
languages) for years until I finally couldn't take it anymore and 
ditched everything MS. I now run *only* Linux.

I was writing a blackjack card game in Gambas, just for kicks and 
giggles, to see how it works. However, when I attempted to make an 
installation package, the only options I had available were Debian and 
Ubuntu. Fedora, Mandriva, OpenSUSE and Slackware were disabled with the 
message "rpmbuild is missing". I installed the librpmbuild package in 
Synaptic but I still get the same message.

Is that the wrong package, or is there something else I am missing? Is 
it because I'm using Gambas3 and not the stable version? I'm running on 
Ubuntu 9.10.

Mind you, this isn't anything critical. I'm not doing any type of 
production work. I'm just writing this as an exercise and for my own 
amusement.

Thanks for any advice you can give this Gambas newbie.