Problem with installing gambas3

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I found that my gambas3 ide was behaving strangely, couldn't view console, keyboard hanging up etc.
Decided to reinstall with:-

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sudo apt update,
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sudo apt-get install gambas3
but get these messages:-

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bill@bill-Vostro-3470:~$ sudo apt-get install gambas3
[sudo] password for bill:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
 gambas3-ide : Depends: gambas3-gb-jit (>= 3.16.3-3) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken package

Kubuntu 22.04

Help needed!

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As usual, the Gambas package on Ubuntu is faulty.

I suggest you load Synaptic, mark all the 'gambas3' files and delete them, it is important that you get rid of all of them. Once done, run the following command in Terminal: -

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sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:gambas-team/gambas3 && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install gambas3

This will load the Gambas ppa and install Gambas from there. Any 'Stable' updates available will also be installed when you do your normal system updates.
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 Thank you cogier, gambas is running again.
ide console still missing though.
F11 does nothing.
Any ideas?
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F11 does nothing.
Any ideas?

No, but, what happens if you 'Print' something? That opens it automatically.
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No 'Print' shows nothing.
I see a post by BruceSteers on 05th February 2023 where he says:-
Find something like the following text in $HOME/.config/gambas3/gambas3.conf

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[FMain]
Geometry=[12,59,1219,849,0,0]
panProject=[False,293,True,False]
panProperty=[False,265,True,False]
panDebug=[True,350,True,False]

Change the second True of panDebug to false.

There is a bug, you must not select transparent handles and auto-hide together for debug panel.

Change panDebug Boolean settings manually to fix it.

I've changed this setting but still no debug console
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 Looking very closely, its possible that the console has shrunk to zero height!
Right click on that area produced a message saying that the console is set to 'invisible', selected set to 'visible' and console now shows.
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bill-lancaster said

Looking very closely, its possible that the console has shrunk to zero height!
Right click on that area produced a message saying that the console is set to 'invisible', selected set to 'visible' and console now shows.

Yes be sure you do not have "auto-hide" and "transparent handles" selected together.

there's a bug in sidepanel.
I offered a fix for Benoit but he didn't do it.

I think the bug is in the Hidden_Write method of SidePanel.class

The method looks like this…

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  1. Private Sub Hidden_Write(bHidden As Boolean)
  2.  
  3.   If $hForm.IsAutoHide() Then Return
  4.   $hForm.SetHidden(bHidden)
  5.  
  7.  

I commented out the first line that returns if Auto-Hide is true so the panel can unhide on command event if auto-hide is set.

Not had a problem since.  :)
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 Thanks Bruce-all is well now.
Bill
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