Re: Upgrading to 3.16.0
Posted: Friday 21st May 2021 11:57am
Well, it’s been an exiting 24 hours.
I followed Bruce’s and Steve’s suggestion and installed this Synaptic app. Used it to de-activate noobslab.
Next, went back to the Terminal to upgrade Gambas. Noobslab was gone and procedures started. Suddenly at some point some error message, but upgrade continued. Then even a warning appeared that Ubuntu 20.04 had problems.
Result after re-booting: Gambas not working but luckily Ubuntu still did.
Tried to find out what was wrong using Synaptic (it does have many options) and got “36 broken packages” - all Gambas. Now what ? Decided to remove Gambas altogether. Terminal : “apt-get remove gambas3*” …. ??? Back to Synaptic. Found option to fix broken packages. Didn’t work.
Option Remove Packages. That one worked. Checked : Gambas was gone.
Did a new install (https://itsfoss.com/install-gambas-ubuntu/) and YES! , Gambas 3.16.0 works.
Treated myself with a nice beer.
And if I might be allowed some remarks :
- Our esteemed developers found it necessary to change the ‘use and feel’ of the keyboard. In the editor you can no longer navigate using the numeric keypad with NumLock switched off. That is really frustrating because I do so for ages and in every other programme – like this forum’s editor.
- When you run your project, it appears in the upper left corner of the screen instead of the middle. Perhaps a question of taste, but I prefer to see it appear in the middle.
And if at least the weather gods treat me nice, I’ll be off for a week or so to my favourite cabin somewhere in the Austrian mountains. No computer, Ubuntu or Gambas unless the kind prepared in garlic sauce.
I followed Bruce’s and Steve’s suggestion and installed this Synaptic app. Used it to de-activate noobslab.
Next, went back to the Terminal to upgrade Gambas. Noobslab was gone and procedures started. Suddenly at some point some error message, but upgrade continued. Then even a warning appeared that Ubuntu 20.04 had problems.
Result after re-booting: Gambas not working but luckily Ubuntu still did.
Tried to find out what was wrong using Synaptic (it does have many options) and got “36 broken packages” - all Gambas. Now what ? Decided to remove Gambas altogether. Terminal : “apt-get remove gambas3*” …. ??? Back to Synaptic. Found option to fix broken packages. Didn’t work.
Option Remove Packages. That one worked. Checked : Gambas was gone.
Did a new install (https://itsfoss.com/install-gambas-ubuntu/) and YES! , Gambas 3.16.0 works.
Treated myself with a nice beer.
And if I might be allowed some remarks :
- Our esteemed developers found it necessary to change the ‘use and feel’ of the keyboard. In the editor you can no longer navigate using the numeric keypad with NumLock switched off. That is really frustrating because I do so for ages and in every other programme – like this forum’s editor.
- When you run your project, it appears in the upper left corner of the screen instead of the middle. Perhaps a question of taste, but I prefer to see it appear in the middle.
And if at least the weather gods treat me nice, I’ll be off for a week or so to my favourite cabin somewhere in the Austrian mountains. No computer, Ubuntu or Gambas unless the kind prepared in garlic sauce.