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The following instructions to install Gambas on Ubuntu are also applicable for Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint and other Ubuntu based distributions.

Gambas 3 binaries

DO NOT add the stable and master repositories at the same time! It is either stable or master.

Installing master version from openSUSE build server

In your Ubuntu installation, open a terminal and enter these commands with elevated rights (sudo):

For Ubuntu 20.04 focal:

$ echo \'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/gambas:/master/xUbuntu_20.04/ /\' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:gambas:master.list
$ curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:gambas:master/xUbuntu_20.04/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home_gambas_master.gpg > /dev/null

For Ubuntu 22.04 jammy:

$ echo \'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/gambas:/master//xUbuntu_22.04/ /\' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:gambas:master.list
$ curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:gambas:master//xUbuntu_22.04/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home_gambas_master.gpg > /dev/null

For Ubuntu 24.04 noble:

$ echo \'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/gambas:/master//xUbuntu_24.04/ /\' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:gambas:master.list
$ curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:gambas:master//xUbuntu_22.04/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home_gambas_master.gpg > /dev/null

Next do:

$ sudo apt-get update

For upgrade from official:

$ sudo apt-get upgrade

For fresh install:

$ sudo apt-get install gambas3

After upgrading from official you might need to follow up with this to fully upgrade gambas3 to master version:

$ sudo apt --fix-broken install
$ sudo apt-get install gambas3

Installing stable version from openSUSE build server

If you have previously installed master from openSUSE build server make sure to first (with elevated rights) do:

$ sudo rm -fr /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:gambas:master.list
$ sudo rm -fr /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home_gambas_master.gpg

In your Ubuntu installation, open a terminal and enter these commands with elevated rights (sudo):

For Ubuntu 20.04 focal:

$ echo \'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/gambas:/stable/xUbuntu_20.04/ /\' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:gambas:stable.list
$ curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:gambas:stable/xUbuntu_20.04/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home_gambas_stable.gpg > /dev/null

For Ubuntu 22.04 jammy:

$ echo \'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/gambas:/stable//xUbuntu_22.04/ /\' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:gambas:stable.list
$ curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:gambas:stable//xUbuntu_22.04/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home_gambas_stable.gpg > /dev/null

For Ubuntu 24.04 noble:

$ echo \'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/gambas:/stable//xUbuntu_24.04/ /\' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:gambas:stable.list
$ curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:gambas:stable//xUbuntu_22.04/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home_gambas_stable.gpg > /dev/null

Next do:

$ sudo apt-get update

For upgrade from official:

$ sudo apt-get upgrade

For fresh install:

$ sudo apt-get install gambas3

After upgrading from official you might need to follow up with this to fully upgrade gambas3 to master version:

$ sudo apt --fix-broken install
$ sudo apt-get install gambas3

Setup a local Gambas3 Ubuntu repository

An alternative to the official packages is local repositories available at Gambas3 Debian/Ubuntu Repository at Gitlab. The Download folder of the repository holds a variety of Gambas version repositories for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04 and 24.04

Available Gambas3 version for Ubuntu 20.04 focal

- Starts with gambas 3.15.2 and upward for amd64. See here for more details.

Available Gambas3 version for Ubuntu 22.04 jammy

- Starts with gambas 3.16.3 and upward for amd64. See here for more details.

Available Gambas3 version for Ubuntu 24.04 noble

- Starts with gambas 3.19.6 and upward for amd64. See here for more details.

How to set up?

From above referenced pages you can download and extract a repository archive holding the donwloaded gambas3 version repository, a ReadMe file and an installation script. Installing is as simple as running the script according to the provided instruction in ReadMe file and Gambas should be installed.

Gambas 3 Compilation

Installing binaries with a package management system is ALWAYS preferred over compilation and installation.

For the latest ubuntu and gambas versions there are automatically updated instructions of needed packages and install commands listed here https://gambaswiki.org/edit/install#t13

The instructions below were made for older gambas versions before the above mentioned automatically updated listings were created. these are manually edited and could possibly now be outdated.

Gambas 3 (version <= 3.4.2)

Step 1. Get the source code.

Note: See A note on installing from git.

Step 2. When installing first update the sources:

$ sudo apt-get update

Step 3. Install these development packages :

Hint: If you copy and paste this, put it into a text editor first and remove the line feeds before running on a command prompt!

To install the development packages needed to compile all Gambas components, open the terminal and give these commands:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential g++ automake autoconf libbz2-dev libmysqlclient-dev unixodbc-dev libpq-dev postgresql-server-dev-9.3 libsqlite0-dev libsqlite3-dev libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libgtkglext1-dev libpcre3-dev libsdl-sound1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev librsvg2-dev libpoppler-dev libpoppler-glib-dev libpoppler-private-dev libxtst-dev libffi-dev libqt4-dev libglew1.5-dev libimlib2-dev libv4l-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libgnome-keyring-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev linux-libc-dev libgsl0-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libcairo2-dev libgsl0-dev libncurses5-dev libgmime-2.6-dev llvm-dev

Note: For older versions of Ubuntu dependencies might have a too low version resulting in some components not being compiled.

Step 4. Go into the directory where the Gambas source files are located and run the script:

$ ./reconf-all

Step 5. Once this script is finished, you can run the common commands to compile and install a program under GNU/Linux:

$ ./configure -C
$ make
$ sudo make install

Step 6. Type gambas3:

Gambas should start and run.

Note: You can make a symlink to start gambas3.

Gambas 3 (version >= 3.5 and <= 3.6)

Step 1. Get the source code.

Note: See A note on installing from git.

Step 2. When installing first update the sources:

$ sudo apt-get update

Step 3. Install these development packages :

Hint: If you copy and paste this, put it into a text editor first and remove the line feeds before running on a command prompt!

To install the development packages needed to compile all Gambas components, open the terminal and give these commands:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential g++ automake autoconf libbz2-dev libmysqlclient-dev unixodbc-dev libpq-dev postgresql-server-dev-9.3 libsqlite0-dev libsqlite3-dev libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libgtkglext1-dev libpcre3-dev libsdl-sound1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev librsvg2-dev libpoppler-dev libpoppler-glib-dev libpoppler-private-dev libasound2-dev libesd0-dev libdirectfb-dev libxtst-dev libffi-dev libqt4-dev libglew1.5-dev libimlib2-dev libv4l-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libgnome-keyring-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev linux-libc-dev libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev libcairo2-dev libgsl0-dev libncurses5-dev libgmime-2.6-dev llvm-dev libalure-dev libgmp-dev libgtk-3-dev libssl-dev

For more recent versions of Ubuntu you might need higher versions of dependencies than mentioned above.

For older versions of Ubuntu dependencies might have a too low version resulting in some components not being compiled.

Step 4. Go into the directory where the Gambas source file are located and run the script:

$ ./reconf-all

Step 5. Once this script is finished, you can run the common commands to compile and install a program under GNU/Linux:

$ ./configure -C
$ make
$ sudo make install

Step 6. Type gambas3

Gambas should start and run.

Note: You can make a symlink to start gambas3

Gambas 3 (version >= 3.7 and <= 3.15)

Step 1. Get the source code.

Note: See A note on installing from git.

Step 2. When installing first update the sources:

$ sudo apt-get update

Step 3. Install these development packages :

Hint: If you copy and paste this, put it into a text editor first and remove the line feeds before running on a command prompt!

To install the development packages needed to compile all Gambas components, open the terminal and give these commands:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential g++ automake autoconf libbz2-dev libmysqlclient-dev unixodbc-dev libpq-dev libsqlite0-dev libsqlite3-dev libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libgtkglext1-dev libpcre3-dev libsdl-sound1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev librsvg2-dev libpoppler-dev libpoppler-glib-dev libpoppler-private-dev libasound2-dev  libdirectfb-dev libxtst-dev libffi-dev libqt4-dev libglew-dev libimlib2-dev libv4l-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev linux-libc-dev libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev libcairo2-dev libgsl-dev libncurses5-dev libgmime-2.6-dev llvm-dev libalure-dev libgmp-dev libgtk-3-dev libssl-dev libqt5webkit5-dev postgresql-server-dev-11 libsdl2-mixer-dev libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev libqtwebkit-dev libqt5x11extras5-dev gir1.2-gmime-3.0

Note: The postgresql-server-dev-X.Y package includes the postgresql version number in its name, so you will have to update it according to the actual package of your distribution.

For example, with Ubuntu 16.04, you have to replace postgresql-server-dev-9.3 by postgresql-server-dev-9.5.

For version on /trunk and 3.8 or higher add:

$ sudo apt-get install libqt5opengl5-dev libqt5svg5-dev libqt5webkit5-dev libqt5x11extras5-dev qtbase5-dev

Note: For /trunk version you might need to install more dependencies as new components get developed. For more recent versions of Ubuntu you might need higher versions of dependencies than mentioned above.

For older versions of Ubuntu dependencies might have a too low version resulting in some components not being compiled. E.g Version on /trunk and 3.8 or higher needs qt5 packages for version 5.3 or higher (Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04 have qt5 packages for version 5.2).

Step 4. Go into the directory where the Gambas source files are located and run the script:

$ ./reconf-all

Step 5. Once this script is finished, you can run the common commands to compile and install a program under GNU/Linux:

$ ./configure -C
$ make -j$(nproc)
$ sudo make install

Step 6. Type gambas3

Gambas should start and run.

Note: You can make a symlink to start gambas3

Gambas3 (version >= 3.19 and development version) from `git`

Hint: If you copy and paste this, put it into a text editor first and remove the line feeds before running on a command prompt!

To install the development packages needed to compile all Gambas components, open the terminal and give these commands:

Step 1. Install dependencies:

for Ubuntu 18.04

$ sudo apt-get update && apt-get install -y build-essential git g++ automake autoconf libtool libbz2-dev libzstd-dev libmysqlclient-dev unixodbc-dev libpq-dev libsqlite0-dev libsqlite3-dev libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libgtkglext1-dev libpcre3-dev libsdl-sound1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev librsvg2-dev libpoppler-dev libpoppler-private-dev libpoppler-glib-dev libpoppler-cpp-dev libasound2-dev libdirectfb-dev libxtst-dev libffi-dev libqt4-dev libqtwebkit-dev libqt4-opengl-dev libglew-dev libimlib2-dev libv4l-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev linux-libc-dev libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev libcairo2-dev libgsl-dev libncurses5-dev libgmime-2.6-dev llvm-dev llvm libalure-dev libgmp-dev libgtk-3-dev libsdl2-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev libsdl2-image-dev sane-utils libdumb1-dev libssl-dev libqt5opengl5-dev libqt5svg5-dev libqt5webkit5-dev libqt5x11extras5-dev qtbase5-dev qtwebengine5-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev libfribidi-dev