[Gambas-user] Where are the examples in gambas 3.5.1?

[Carl Nilsson]

G'day Matti and all:
Now I do have a success story.  This correspondence is really on the 
wrong forum - it is not really an issue for Gambas, as most of you 
realised from the start. It is an issue for openSUSE and those who 
make up distros and Linux novices like myself. After putting in as 
much time as I could take in front of the computers over the last few 
days, I finally have gambas3 properly installed under openSUSE 
12.2.  It should not be such a struggle. Under the distros for 
openSUSE available in either the munix9 repo (gambas 3.5.1) or the 
opensuse Education repo (gambas 3.4.1), four gb major components had 
missing dependencies in my partly-installed openSUSE 
12.2/i586/.  These were (in gambas 3.4.1) image-imlib, sdl, v4l and 
examples.  As best as I noted, image-imlib needed imlib2, sdl needed 
libogg, v4l needed v4l-tools and v4l-tools needed tv-common. Most of 
my time was spent surfing around looking for suitable packages.  For 
a Linux novice, this can be quite daunting.  It's a bit like being 
lost in a forest without a compass that you can trust and use.  There 
are plenty laying around, but they all point in different 
directions!  Some posts said it was absolutely necessary to compile 
and install imlib2 from a tarball, for example.  I tried that, got it 
compiled but apparently not correctly installed.  In turned out that 
imlib2 needed libjpeg, libpng, freetype 2.1.x and then libmlib2-1, 
all to be separately found and installed. etc etc.  Then a 
breakthrough - yet another net search brought me back near my 
starting point, to software.opensuse.org/search.  That /search 
facility proved my lifesaver, it came up with apt (or was it app?) 
packages for the missing dependencies that installed 
automatically.  The imlib for gambas3 was the hardest nut for me to 
crack.  I still don't know if I will actually need it or not, as I 
won't be processing images with my own project, but I was determined 
to get it in.  Once that was done, 'examples' jumped in of its own 
accord. I learned a bit more about Linux and of course, that is only 
scratching at the surface.  At last I'm under the skin of my Linux 
and starting in on Gambas.  Talk to you some more later on, 
Matti.  Thanks for responding.
Carl

At 12:04 AM 3/12/2013, you wrote:
>G'day Matti:
>I don't have a success story to report yet, but I have not been idle
>and thought I should report.
>I spent quite some time looking at that 'versions' tab.  Couldn't
>actually do anything with it until later today when I realised that
>only some packages had alternate versions from which to
>choose.  Couldn't install/choose either a complete set of gambas
>3.5.1 or 3.4.1.  (snip)

Carl S Nilsson
137 Gordons Hill Road
Lindisfarne, Tas.
Australia 7015