[Gambas-user] Install from Ubuntu repo - several issues

[Lewis Balentine]

Thank you Willy. Those instructions helped me as well.
Lewis

On 12/12/2014 08:22 AM, Willy Raets wrote:
> On vr, 2014-12-12 at 05:54 -0800, LVDave wrote:
>> Having used to use MSVisualBasic many moons ago, I wanted to see how close
>> Gambas was to VB. Since I'm on Ubuntu 14.04, I installed Gambas from the
>> Ubuntu repository. Everything installed with no errors, but when I attempt
>> to open any one of the sample projects, I get a dialog box saying "this
>> project seems to be already opened, opening the same project twice can lead
>> to data loss"...If I go ahead and "reopen" the sample, it appears to load
>> ok, but then if I try to run it, I get a dialog box saying "the program has
>> returned the value of 1"... As I said this occurs with all of the sample
>> programs..
>>
>> What am I doing wrong??
> As far as I know Ubuntu 14.04 official repository has a very outdated
> Gambas 3.1.1.
>
> Since Gambas 3.1.1, many bugs have been fixed and the latest stable
> version is Gambas 3.6.2
>
> I suggest you first remove the current install (if it is Gambas 3.1.1)
> and next install the most recent stable Gambas 3.6.2 from the
> Gambas-team PPA.
>
> The instructions to install latest stable from binaries (PPA) are in the
> Gambas wiki:
> http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/install/ubuntu#t2
>
> If after all this you still have problems with the examples just let us
> know.
>
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