[Gambas-user] Gambas Future or what kind of Gambas we want.

[Jussi Lahtinen]

I see your all three replies..?


Some time ago I had actually bought a set of DVD's with openSUSE12.2,
>

Bought? It's free!



>  ... after unsuccessfully trying to intall Lubuntu and Ubuntu on an older
> computer.
>

Off topic for this list, but I'm curious what went wrong?



> However, gambas3 would not install its examples because of
> missing dependencies like imlib2, libogg and v4l-tools: I seached the
> net, obtaining many pieces of advice on installing these.
>

All dependencies should be installed automatically... there were something
wrong in how Gambas was packaged.
I guess this is under work, if not fixed already.



> I tried
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/enlightenment/.  I'll say I neded
> enlightenment!
>
 By the time I got to "sed -i
> "DGifOpen/s:fd:&,NULL:"src/modules/loaders/loader_gif.c  &.configure
> --prefix=/usr --disable-static && make" and similar instructions the
> cat (the one with four legs, not the Linux command) had the good
> sense to leave the house!
>

Nothing to do with Gambas and so completely unnecessary. Those commands
seems to be for compiling "enlightenment",
not just for installing it. Not newbie stuff at all.


>
> If you try to install Gambas 3.5 on the Raspberry Pi running it's
> version of Debian Wheezy, the CPU goes into overdrive and stays
> there.
>

Without details hard to say what happened. Compiling any C program is quite
CPU intensive and RPi isn't very fast.
So maybe it only took very *very* long.



> That's what happens in the real world of newbies to Linux and Gambas.
>

Sounds like I can't recommend openSUSE to newbies.


Jussi