[Gambas-user] gambas not installed by package manager problems.

[Bruce Steers]

cheers Christof this could be something i can work with :)
I'll see what i can do with this info , wish me luck  :)

On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 at 16:21, Christof Thalhofer <chrisml at deganius.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> we talked in the mailinglist about that some time ago. You may want to
> have a look at this thread:
>
> https://lists.gambas-basic.org/pipermail/user/2020-February/068640.html
>
> For me I came to the result to compile and package my Gambas software
> with makefiles and the debian tool 'dpkg-buildpackage -b'.
>
> For that I have to maintain a ./debian folder and a ./debian/control
> file which contains strings like that:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Depends: postgresql-client, texlive, texlive-latex-extra, ...
>
> Recommends: gambas3-runtime, gambas3-gb-image, gambas3-gb-qt4,
> gambas3-gb-args, gambas3-gb-form, ...
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> A Debian package is created with 'dpkg-buildpackage -b' called in the
> folder where the makefile resides.
>
> Later the package can be installed on a machine with precompiled Gambas
> like so:
>
> apt-get --no-install-recommends install package-xyz.deb
>
> The caveat is that I have to create and maintain scripts which call
> dpkg-buildpackage which calls a makefile for each Debian package.
>
> The advantage of this approach is that I can pack more that one Gambas
> project into a Debian package. And with two calls of scripts I can
> compile and (Gambas)-package the project, create a Debian package from
> that and push it to the server, which provides the debian packages via Apt.
>
> Alles Gute
>
> Christof Thalhofer
>
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