G'day Matti and all: Now I do have a success story. This correspondence is really on the wrong forum - it is not really an issue for Gambas, as most of you realised from the start. It is an issue for openSUSE and those who make up distros and Linux novices like myself. After putting in as much time as I could take in front of the computers over the last few days, I finally have gambas3 properly installed under openSUSE 12.2. It should not be such a struggle. Under the distros for openSUSE available in either the munix9 repo (gambas 3.5.1) or the opensuse Education repo (gambas 3.4.1), four gb major components had missing dependencies in my partly-installed openSUSE 12.2/i586/. These were (in gambas 3.4.1) image-imlib, sdl, v4l and examples. As best as I noted, image-imlib needed imlib2, sdl needed libogg, v4l needed v4l-tools and v4l-tools needed tv-common. Most of my time was spent surfing around looking for suitable packages. For a Linux novice, this can be quite daunting. It's a bit like being lost in a forest without a compass that you can trust and use. There are plenty laying around, but they all point in different directions! Some posts said it was absolutely necessary to compile and install imlib2 from a tarball, for example. I tried that, got it compiled but apparently not correctly installed. In turned out that imlib2 needed libjpeg, libpng, freetype 2.1.x and then libmlib2-1, all to be separately found and installed. etc etc. Then a breakthrough - yet another net search brought me back near my starting point, to software.opensuse.org/search. That /search facility proved my lifesaver, it came up with apt (or was it app?) packages for the missing dependencies that installed automatically. The imlib for gambas3 was the hardest nut for me to crack. I still don't know if I will actually need it or not, as I won't be processing images with my own project, but I was determined to get it in. Once that was done, 'examples' jumped in of its own accord. I learned a bit more about Linux and of course, that is only scratching at the surface. At last I'm under the skin of my Linux and starting in on Gambas. Talk to you some more later on, Matti. Thanks for responding. Carl
At 12:04 AM 3/12/2013, you wrote: >G'day Matti: >I don't have a success story to report yet, but I have not been idle >and thought I should report. >I spent quite some time looking at that 'versions' tab. Couldn't >actually do anything with it until later today when I realised that >only some packages had alternate versions from which to >choose. Couldn't install/choose either a complete set of gambas >3.5.1 or 3.4.1. (snip) Carl S Nilsson 137 Gordons Hill Road Lindisfarne, Tas. Australia 7015 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
