I have a very beginner level question: How do I install Gambas on my Raspberry Pi?  Using the Debian/Raspberry Pi Add/Remove Software tool, I downloaded the Gambas GUI.  Now I have a folder called 'gambas-3.20.1'  What do I do next?

I'm not a computer professional anymore and my tech skills are quite out-of-date.  I still enjoy programming as at the hobbyist level and hope to find programming language I liked as much as VB6.  Hopefully Gambas will be the one.

Thanks!

Bill

How exactly did you download the GUI?


you can use the OBS packages here…
Install package home:gambas:stable / gambas3


just run these commands for Debian12…
(for deb11 just change the 12 to 11)
(for gambas development branch change stable to master)

(curl and gpg must be installed)

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echo 'deb /repositories/home:/gambas:/stable/Debian_12 - openSUSE Download /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:gambas:stable.list
curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:gambas:stable/Debian_12/Release.key | gpg –dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home_gambas_stable.gpg > /dev/null
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gambas3
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Bill_LX said

I have a very beginner level question: How do I install Gambas on my Raspberry Pi?  Using the Debian/Raspberry Pi Add/Remove Software tool, I downloaded the Gambas GUI.  Now I have a folder called 'gambas-3.20.1'  What do I do next?

I'm not a computer professional anymore and my tech skills are quite out-of-date.  I still enjoy programming as at the hobbyist level and hope to find programming language I liked as much as VB6.  Hopefully Gambas will be the one.

Thanks!

Bill

It's been a lot of years since I've used a RPi, but if you used the GUI based Add/Remove Software tool to install all Gambas packages, you should have a menu entry, possibly under "Development", named "Gambas 3".

BruceSteers said

you can use the OBS packages here…
Install package home:gambas:stable / gambas3

If you have Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit version) or Raspberry PI OS (Legacy 64-bit)  installed you can use above as it has only 64-bit images for arm (so arm64). OSB repo has NO 32-bit arm (armhf)
See: https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/

For Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit version) use:

For Raspberry PI OS (Legacy 64-bit) use: