[Gambas-user] Installation of Gambas3 in Suse12.2

[Carl Nilsson]

Matti:
Thank you for your helpful reply. (I'm not exactly sure how this 
mailing list works - I presume you and other subscribers receive this 
posting).   Your reference to the install guide below is seems most 
helpful. I am hard-pressed for time at the moment, but will try again 
when I can.   Late last night, I did use Yast to find a gb-net-curl 
for i586 and got that installed.  Then my gambas examples showed, but 
I think I am only half-way there.   I cannot seem to get the 
components (widgets) to show for the examples and my form remains 
blank for any example.   Nor do the libraries list.  So I will try 
deleting the installation  and starting again on the basis of the 
help/install file below.    My next question is that your 
install/help file relates to Suse 10.2. I have a reliable install of 
10.0 on one computer and a new install of 12.2 on the one on which I 
am trying out gambas.  Not 100% confident of the 12.2 install at the 
moment, but seems to work.  (Boots to a rather blank green screen 
(KDE desktop) , no icons, no gecko, just enough on the taskbar at the 
bottom to get going).  Anyway, should your install instructions for 
gambas3 apply equally well to Suse 12.2 as 10.2 and have Opensuse got 
their gambas distro right now or do the comments about not using 
their gambas installation still apply?

I might add that I do not necessarily need the latest and the best 
from either openSUSE or gambas for what I have to do.  I thought 
choosing the latest in each case might make thinks easier for a 
newbie to both, but I'm open to installing earlier versions if that 
seemed desirable.  The gambas software I hope to write is really a 
translation (or porting) of my existing VB6 software that runs on Win 
2K.  It is heavy on serial ports, comms and some (arithmetical) 
calculations, uses timers, but that's about all.  At this stage I 
really just wanted to make sure gambas could do the job.
Thanks for your time.
Carl

At 04:23 AM 28/09/2012, you wrote:
>Hi Carl,
>
>I guess that the packager forgot a requirement. See
>http://gambasdoc.org/help/install?v3
>
>So, open YaST2, search for "libcurl" and install libcurl4 and libcurl-devel.
>
>Let's see if this helps.
>
>Matti
>
>
>Am 27.09.2012 06:21, schrieb Carl Nilsson:
> > Dear Moderator:
> > I have installed Suse 12.2 mainly because I want to run gambas on
> > Linux as an alternative to VB6 on Win2K in a modest embedded
> > system.  I'm a newbie at Linux (and gambas) but used zypper to
> > (apparently successfully) install gambas3 from
> > /munix9:/gambas/openSUSE_12.2/.  However I got the message "could not
> > install gambas3-examples gambas3-gb-net-curl" because "nothing
> > provides gambas3-net = 3.2.1 needed by gambas3-examples
> > gambas3-gb-net-curl-3.21-6-21.i586"   Now, as a newbie I'm pretty
> > interested in examples in general, so Question 1 is whether or not I
> > should concern myself about that and Question 2 is how would I go
> > about remedying that omission.  I take it gambas3-net = 3.2.1 is some
> > sort of dependency - how widely needed I am unsure.  A quick google
> > search suggests that gambas3-gb-net-curl (or at least one version) is
> > a component package for "net-curl" - is part of a Fedora package for
> > X86 64 machines.  I am 32 bit (i586) at this stage, so maybe I can
> > ignore the whole bit - and I don't need my gambas project to work
> > on/with the net or with URLs, which I gather is what cURL refers
> > to.  Helpful comments?
> >
> > Carl S Nilsson
> > 137 Gordons Hill Road
> > Lindisfarne, Tas.
> > Australia 7015
> > 
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Carl S Nilsson
137 Gordons Hill Road
Lindisfarne, Tas.
Australia 7015