[Gambas-user] hardware requirments?

[Jussi Lahtinen]

Have you actually tested that with 32bit version?


Jussi

On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 4:11 PM, Gianluigi <bagonergi at gmail.com> wrote:

> A possible solution that allows installing 3.10 from PPA is Xubuntu 16.04
>
> Regards
> Gianluigi
>
> 2017-12-08 19:27 GMT+01:00 PICCORO McKAY Lenz <mckaygerhard at gmail.com>:
>
>> the problem its the winbuntu derived distro mint..
>>
>> i installed gambas in the very older eeepc asus with 2G disk ssd
>> internal, 512Mb ram and geode CPU 800MHz perfectly..
>>
>> but recent stupid linuxes (including recent kernel) now removed a lot of
>> support for older hardware lest take a example to xorg:
>>
>> since 7.3 xorg does not support intel i810 complety, lie to said that its
>> supported due that chip does not offer 32bit dept only 16bit "true color"
>> so newer xorg does not complety provide all the chip capabilities
>> so if you have intel 810 based chip and wants DIR and opengl, xorg must
>> be fewer rather thant 7.2  so an older linux must be used..
>>
>> in my case i backporte gambas for older linuxes.. like debian lenny and
>> squeeze perfectly.. of course, thanks to benoit that still does not "up"
>> the requerimients...
>>
>> Lenz McKAY Gerardo (PICCORO)
>> http://qgqlochekone.blogspot.com
>>
>> 2017-12-08 13:47 GMT-04:00 Tobias Boege <taboege at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> On Fri, 08 Dec 2017, mikeB wrote:
>>> > here's what my friend replied.....
>>> > Installing Mint 18.3 on Old & New PC's works OK.
>>> > Plenty of disks space (250GB SATA).
>>> > Plenty of memory (8GB).
>>> > Then add the ppa:gambas-team repo source.
>>> > Then apt-get update & then install gambas3.
>>> > Works ok on new PC's, but fails install on old PC's.
>>> > *Major difference is old CPU & Mobo.*
>>> > Works /w AMD APU's & FX CPU's.
>>> > Fails on Old PC's /w AMD Athlon CPU's.
>>> > Interesting that installing Gambas 3.8.4 on the Old PC's works.
>>> > Only Gambas 3.10 fails to install on the Old PC's.
>>> >
>>>
>>> A possibly relevant difference between those systems is that AMD Athlons
>>> are 32 bit, unless I'm mistaken. Maybe some dependencies are outdated for
>>> that architecture.
>>>
>>> Anyway it would be time to provide some real error messages. If it's the
>>> bitness or too high version requirements for some dependencies that came
>>> since 3.8.4, the package manager should be able to say that.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Tobi
>>>
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