Gambas 3 is a programming IDE that is available for Linux. Gambas is very easy to use even you are new to programming. It comes with a new interface design which is far more easy for newbie. Gambas supports almost any Linux distribution, including Manjaro. Here in this tutorial you will find a simple way to install Gambas 3 on Manjaro 16.08.
What is Gambas ?
Before we go through, some of you may be ask for this common question. Based on Wikipedia, Gambas is the name of an object-oriented dialect of the BASIC programming language as well as the integrated development environment that accompanies it. Designed to run on Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems, its name is a recursive acronym for Gambas Almost Means Basic. Gambas was developed by the French programmer Benoît Minisini with its first release coming in 1999. Benoît had grown up with the BASIC language, and decided to make a free software development environment that could quickly and easily make programs with user interfaces.
Gambas Interface on Manjaro
The following Gambas 3 screenshot was taken on Manjaro 16.08 Budgie edition.
Gambas 3 main menu
How to install Gambas 3 on Manjaro
Installing Gambas 3 on Manjaro 16.08 is pretty easy. We can do the installation via GUI using Add/Remove Software.
Open Add/Remove Software and type 'gambas3' on the search box. You will see list of packages with gambas3. Make sure you select the following packages to be installed:
Once the installation completed, Gambas 3 icon launcher should be available on the Manjaro apps menu. You can also execute the gambas3 package from Terminal with the following command:
Open Add/Remove Software and type 'gambas3' on the search box. You will see list of packages with gambas3. Make sure you select the following packages to be installed:
- gambas3-ide
- gambas3-runtime
- gambas3-gb-inotify
- gambas3-gb-form-editor
Scroll down to find those package and mark them to install.
Once the installation completed, Gambas 3 icon launcher should be available on the Manjaro apps menu. You can also execute the gambas3 package from Terminal with the following command:
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1 comments:
Hi and thank you for this information.I created a small, very small project and the project doesn't work. It is supposed to open up another window and I get this error "gb.gui: error: unable to find any GUI component" do you have any fix for that? thank you I'm Rob!
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