[Gambas-user] OH NO - not this ? again...

[PICCORO McKAY Lenz]

hi! the problem here its that the winbuntu ppa's are incompatible with
current releases of Debian..

so then i setup a suse build service with proper packages.. wheantime a
gambas 3.10 are in venenux repositories.. :


http://intranet1.net.ve/debian/venenux/mskcommon/devel/gambas310/

of course: no gtk3, no qt5 and no media components


Lenz McKAY Gerardo (PICCORO)
http://qgqlochekone.blogspot.com

2017-09-02 13:32 GMT-04:00 Tobias Boege <taboege at ...626...>:

> On Sat, 02 Sep 2017, mikeB wrote:
> > ************************************************************
> *******************************
> >
> > Just to clarify a few questions that were presented in your MUCH
> APPRECIATED
> > answers:
> >
> > * when try to install the deb file on a virgin Mint 8.1 puter = the
> > installer starts its "thing"
> >
> > then returns an error message saying
> >
> > "ERROR: Dependency is not satisfied: gambas3-runtime(>=3.10).
> >
> >
> > After more research found a cmd line that says will update the runtime
> files
> >
> > (which would be GREAT if it actually worked ;-( as expected by a very new
> > Linux user.
> >
> > "sudo apt-get install gambas3-runtime"
> >
> > the terminal return =
> >
> > mikeb at ...3685... ~ $ sudo apt-get install gambas3-runtime
> > [sudo] password for mikeb:
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > gambas3-runtime is already the newest version (3.8.4-2ubuntu3.1).
> > gambas3-runtime set to manually installed.
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 325 not upgraded.
> > mikeb at ...3685... ~ $
> >
> > Notice that it says "newest version 3.8.4-2 when at the same time
> >
> > the installer error reports needs " gambas3-runtime(.=3.10)"
> >
> > yep.. very confusing for me anyway.
> >
>
> Don't be confused, it tells you exactly what the problem is.
>
> You wrote a Gambas program with Gambas 3.10. If you generate an
> installation
> package of your program, the packager will enter the Gambas runtime and all
> the components your project uses as dependencies into the package, so that
> the package manager (apt-get in your case) can automatically install all
> the
> missing packages on the target system, to make sure your program will have
> all the bits available to function correctly.
>
> Since you used Gambas 3.10 to package your program, the dependencies of the
> runtime and components will be >= 3.10, because the current version is the
> lowest version that the Gambas IDE can assume your project works with.
>
> Now, as is often the case, your distribution doesn't have the latest
> version
> of Gambas in its repository. It only has access to 3.8.4, as it tells you,
> so the version requirement of >= 3.10 is unsatisfiable and you cannot
> install
> your program.
>
> Just releasing Gambas 3.10 on our site doesn't magically make it available
> in every distribution's package repository. That requires people putting in
> some work to integrate the new Gambas version and it may just be that those
> people are lacking for a specific distribution or that distributions have
> more conservative policies of when to upgrade their software repositories.
>
> In the case of Linux Mint, or any Ubuntu-based distribution, you can
> install
> very recent Gambas versions through the PPA maintained by Sebastian Kulesz.
> See the wiki [1] for how to do that. Essentially you have to add another
> software repository (called a PPA)to your system:
>
>   $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gambas-team/gambas3
>   $ sudo apt-get update
>
> and once you did that, apt-get will find the newer Gambas versions.
> Your deb should install now.
>
> NOTE however that I'm not a Linux Mint or Ubuntu user. I just copied
> these commands from the wiki page linked in [1], for completeness' sake.
> I can only say that those lines don't seem horribly wrong to me.
>
> Regards,
> Tobi
>
> [1] http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/install/linux_mint
>
> --
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