[Gambas-user] Warning popup: “No terminal emulator found”

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 11/02/2021 à 17:53, dahaiou at gmail.com a écrit :
> Hello, and thanks Bruce and Benoit.
> 
> Benoit, yes, “Use terminal emulator” was checked.
> 
> Bruce: OK, I uninstalled and reinstalled WSL Ubuntu 20.04, ran the update and upgrades
> and then installed qt5 and gambas3**.
> 
> However, I now ran into the same qt5 error message as before.
> After a bit of digging I found that other people have had the same difficulties running
> qt5 under WSL1, and a suggested solution here:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63627955/cant-load-shared-library-libqt5core-so-5
> 
> I ran the command they gave there:
> sudo strip --remove-section=.note.ABI-tag /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5
> 
> ... and lo and behold gambas3 fired up correctly – “vanilla stable” installation this time.
> 
> (the one I got working a couple of days ago was from the daily ppa, didn’t need that this time)
> 
> Not sure what that “strip” command actually does, but apparently it is necessary for Qt5 to work in WSL1.
> 
> (Unfortunately I cannot run WSL2 because it requires hypervisor settings to be enabled in Windows
>   which I refuse to do, as VirtualBox and VMWare would no longer work.)
> 
> Oh, and the issue with “No terminal emulator found” is gone as well.
> So, issues solved for the time being I guess.
> 
> Ah, one last question: What are you guys using to answer the posts here, that inserts those “>” signs
> at the beginning of quoted lines? I don't feel terribly motivated to put them in manually.
> (I am sending this as mail from Outlook at the moment - I did change to plain text, hopefully that
> gets rid of the double linefeeds.)
> 
> Cheers, Henrik
> 

Thunderbird.

In a general manner, stop using Windows, and 95% of your problems will 
disappear. You will gain a few new ones on Linux, but contrary to 
Windows, it will be "interesting" problems. :-)

-- 
Benoît Minisini