Debian
Last edit: 2024-10-17 by gbWilly
The following instructions to install Gambas on Debian are also applicable for other Debian based distributions like Devuan or LMDE.
Gambas 3 is available in the Debian official repositories.
Installing official packages
In your Debian installation, open a terminal and enter these commands as super user "root":
$ apt-get install gambas3
In a Debian or Devuan desktop installation,
sudo is available, but the usage of
su command is the common and preffered way to gain root privileges. If you do want to take a shot at
using sudo like other Debian based distributions look at this section of this guide and get back here.
Once installed Gambas will appears in the
Programing menu category.
Depending of your version of Debian installed this will install an officially supported version by Debian Maintainers.
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Version
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Name
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Branch
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Gambas version available
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Install command
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10
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Buster
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Old old Stable
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apt-get install gambas3
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11
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Bullseye
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Old Stable
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apt-get install gambas3
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Old Stable-bpo (backports)
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apt-get install gambas3
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12
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Bookworm
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Stable
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apt-get install gambas3
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13
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Trixie
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Testing
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apt-get install gambas3
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After installation you will find Gambas 3 installed in menu 'Programming'.
Setup a more recent Gambas3 Debian repository
An alternative to the official packages is a more recent repositories available at
Gambas3 Debian Repository at Gitlab. The Download folder of the repository holds more recent Gambas version repositories for Debian 11 and 12.
Available Gambas3 version for Debian bullseye
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Gambas-3.18.4 (i386 and amd64)
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Gambas-3.19.2 (i386 and amd64)
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Gambas-3.19.3 (i386 and amd64)
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Gambas-3.19.4 (i386 and amd64)
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Gambas-3.19.5 (i386 and amd64)
Available Gambas3 version for Debian bookworm
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Gambas-3.18.4 (i386 and amd64)
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Gambas-3.19.2 (i386 and amd64)
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Gambas-3.19.3 (i386 and amd64)
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Gambas-3.19.4 (i386 and amd64)
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Gambas-3.19.5 (i386, amd64 and arm64)
How to set up?
You can
download the chosen Gambas version repository archive files to extract and find instructions on how to set them up on your local system (or a local web server for that matter).
After a successful setup of the repository a simple:
$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install gambas3
will install your chosen Gambas version
Installing from compilation
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Installing binaries with a package management system is ALWAYS preferred over compilation and installation.
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If you not have
sudo, use the su command to gain root privileges or please take a shot at using sudo like other derivatives section of this guide and get back here.
Compilation from sources for Debian buster (10)
Gambas 3 (version >= 3.12 and <= 3.18)
(Updated 2024.06.17)
Step 1. Get the source code (either download and extract the package from main Gambas website or use git clone/checkout)
Note: For using Git checkout see A note on installing from git
Step 2. Open a terminal (make sure your user account is part of sudo group)
Step 3. Install these packages :
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y build-essential g++ automake autoconf libbz2-dev libzstd-dev default-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 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 libalure-dev libgmp-dev libgtk-3-dev libsdl2-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev libsdl2-image-dev sane-utils libdumb1-dev libqt5opengl5-dev libqt5svg5-dev libqt5webkit5-dev libqt5x11extras5-dev qtbase5-dev qtwebengine5-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev libssl-dev
Go into the directory where the Gambas source file are located and run the script :
Step 5. Once this script is finished, you can run the common commands to compile and install a program under GNU/Linux :
$ ./configure -C --disable-keyring
$ make -j$(nproc)
$ sudo make install
Type gambas3
Gambas should start and run.
Note: You can make a symlink to start gambas3
Compilation from sources for Debian bullseye (11)
Gambas 3 (version >= 3.15 and <= 3.18)
(Updated 2024.06.15)
Step 1. Get the source code (either download and extract the package from main Gambas website or use git clone/checkout)
Note: For using Git checkout see A note on installing from git
Step 2. Open a terminal (make sure your user account is part of sudo group)
Step 3. Install these packages :
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y build-essential g++ automake autoconf libbz2-dev libzstd-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev unixodbc-dev libpq-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 libpoppler-cpp-dev libasound2-dev libdirectfb-dev libxtst-dev libffi-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-3.0-dev libalure-dev libgmp-dev libgtk-3-dev libsdl2-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev libsdl2-image-dev sane-utils libdumb1-dev libqt5opengl5-dev libqt5svg5-dev libqt5webkit5-dev libqt5x11extras5-dev qtbase5-dev qtwebengine5-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev libssl-dev
Go into the directory where the Gambas source file are located and run the script :
Step 5. Once this script is finished, you can run the common commands to compile and install a program under GNU/Linux :
$ ./configure -C --disable-keyring --disable-sqlite2 --disable-qt4
$ make -j$(nproc)
$ sudo make install
Type gambas3
Gambas should start and run.
Note: You can make a symlink to start gambas3
Gambas 3 (version >= 3.19 and development version on master)
(Updated 2024.06.10)
Step 1. Get the source code (either download and extract the package from main Gambas website or use git clone/checkout)
Note: For using Git checkout see A note on installing from git
Step 2. Open a terminal (make sure your user account is part of sudo group)
Step 3. Install these packages :
$ sudo apt-get update && apt-get install -y build-essential g++ automake autoconf libbz2-dev libzstd-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev unixodbc-dev libpq-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 libpoppler-cpp-dev libasound2-dev libdirectfb-dev libxtst-dev libffi-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 libncurses-dev libgmime-3.0-dev libalure-dev libgmp-dev libgtk-3-dev libsdl2-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev libsdl2-image-dev sane-utils libdumb1-dev libqt5opengl5-dev libqt5svg5-dev libqt5webkit5-dev libqt5x11extras5-dev qtbase5-dev qtwebengine5-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev git libssl-dev libmongoc-dev
libmongoc-dev is not needed for 3.19
Step 4. Go into the directory where the Gambas source file are located and run the script :
Step 5. Once this script is finished, you can run the common commands to compile and install a program under GNU/Linux :
$ ./configure -C --disable-keyring --disable-sqlite2 --disable-qt4 --disable-qt6
$ make -j$(nproc)
$ sudo make install
Type gambas3
Gambas should start and run.
Note: You can make a symlink to start gambas3
Compilation from sources for Debian bookworm (12) and Debian trixie (13)
Gambas 3 (version >= 3.16 and <= 3.18)
(Updated 2024.06.15)
Step 1. Get the source code (either download and extract the package from main Gambas website or use git clone/checkout)
Note: For using Git checkout see A note on installing from git
Step 2. Open a terminal (make sure your user account is part of sudo group)
Step 3. Install these packages :
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y build-essential g++ automake autoconf libbz2-dev libzstd-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev unixodbc-dev libpq-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 libpoppler-cpp-dev libasound2-dev libdirectfb-dev libxtst-dev libffi-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-3.0-dev libalure-dev libgmp-dev libgtk-3-dev libsdl2-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev libsdl2-image-dev sane-utils libdumb1-dev libqt5opengl5-dev libqt5svg5-dev libqt5webkit5-dev libqt5x11extras5-dev qtbase5-dev qtwebengine5-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev libssl-dev
Go into the directory where the Gambas source file are located and run the script :
Step 5. Once this script is finished, you can run the common commands to compile and install a program under GNU/Linux :
$ ./configure -C --disable-keyring --disable-sqlite2 --disable-qt4
$ make -j$(nproc)
$ sudo make install
Type gambas3
Gambas should start and run.
Note: You can make a symlink to start gambas3
Gambas 3 (version >= 3.19 and development version on master)
(Updated 2024.06.10)
Step 1. Get the source code (either download and extract the package from main Gambas website or use git clone/checkout)
Note: For using Git checkout see A note on installing from git
Step 2. Open a terminal (make sure your user account is part of sudo group)
Step 3. Install these packages :
$ sudo apt-get update && apt-get install -y build-essential g++ automake autoconf libbz2-dev libzstd-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev unixodbc-dev libpq-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 libpoppler-cpp-dev libasound2-dev libdirectfb-dev libxtst-dev libffi-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 libncurses-dev libgmime-3.0-dev libalure-dev libgmp-dev libgtk-3-dev libsdl2-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev libsdl2-image-dev sane-utils libdumb1-dev libqt5opengl5-dev libqt5svg5-dev libqt5webkit5-dev libqt5x11extras5-dev qtbase5-dev qtwebengine5-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev git libssl-dev qt6-base-dev qt6-webengine-dev qt6-svg-dev libmongoc-dev
qt6-base-dev, qt6-webengine-dev, qt6-svg-dev and libmongoc-dev are not needed for 3.19
Step 4. Go into the directory where the Gambas source file are located and run the script :
Step 5. Once this script is finished, you can run the common commands to compile and install a program under GNU/Linux :
$ ./configure -C --disable-keyring --disable-sqlite2 --disable-qt4 (for trixie add --disable-gtkopengl)
$ make -j$(nproc)
$ sudo make install
Type gambas3
Gambas should start and run.
Note: You can make a symlink to start gambas3
Important notes
A note on installing from git
If you want to compile the latest development version or a stable version from Gitlab Gambas repository, you need to install Git first.
To do this open a terminal and do:
$ sudo apt-get install git
You will now be able to do a git clone or git checkout.
Downloading Gambas from Gitlab repository
Everybody can make a copy of the repository on his hard disk by using the following command:
For development version
$ git clone --depth=1 https://gitlab.com/gambas/gambas.git
For current stable version
$ git clone --branch stable --depth=1 https://gitlab.com/gambas/gambas.git
For an specific old stable version (e.g. 3.6)
$ wget https://gitlab.com/gambas/gambas/repository/v3.6.0/archive.tar.gz -O gambas-3.6.0.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf gambas-3.6.0.tar.gz
$ cd gambas-v3.6.0-*
For more info about using Gitlab Gambas repository see in the
Git development guide for Gambas
Using sudo like other derivatives
Debian does not use the sudo command as other Debian derived works, due its not the default.
This simply means not have the
sudo command. You can install
sudo package and add your user to the group sudo.
These are the steps to correct this problem:
1. Open a terminal and type:
Enter the root password and hit <enter>.
Install the sudo package and hit <enter>.
2. Type:
Added your USERNAME to the
sudo group and hit <enter>.
3. Type:
Replace USERNAME with your account name.
4. Type (yes do it twice):
5. Restart your session, then, sudo will work in a terminal for the user you added to sudo group.
What are the latest dependencies to install
As dependencies change over time it is always a good thing to know what you need to install for what Debian version.
Check
gitlab-ci.yml for the exact needed dependencies to install latest Gambas3 on Debian.
Search for your Debian version and follow the exact instructions there.
Outdated instructions
See the
Debian deprecated instructions.
Page revisions
Debian Gambas 3 instructions by: W. Raets - Sept 8th, 2013
- Updated: Oct 18th, 2017 by PICCORO Lenz McKAY (mckaygerhard)
- Updated: Nov 9th, 2018 by Gianluigi Gradaschi
- Updated: Oct 23th, 2019 by W. Raets (gbWilly)
- Updated: Oct 7th, 2020 by B. Steers
- Added Debian Buster dependency list
- Updated: Dec 13th 2021 by M. Belmonte
- Updated Debian Buster dependency list
- Added Bullseye and Bookworm entries
- Updated: Apr 19th 2023 by W. Raets (gbWilly)
- Added stable backports and updated testing to proper Gambas version
- Bit of improvement on the English used here and there
- Bit of improvement on the layout of page revisions
- Updated: June 27th 2023 by W. Raets (gbWilly)
- Updated table for binary install with new stable release
- Added compilation and installation for trixie (current testing)
- Corrected some in page links to point to the proper paragraphs
- Updated: Juli 8th 2023 by W. Raets (gbWilly)
- Updated compilation ./configure instructions for buster, bullseye, bookworm and trixie
- Added compilation and installation for gambas3 >= 3.12 on stretch
- Updated: June 10th 2024 by W. Raets (gbWilly)
- Updated official package status for trixie
- Added compilation instruction as of Gambas 3.19.0
- Added 'What are the latest dependencies to install'
- Updated: June 15th 2024 by W. Raets (gbWilly)
- changed titles for previous bullseye/bookworm compilation to <= 3.18
- Added 'Outdated instructions'
- Updated: June 16th 2024 by W. Raets (gbWilly)
- added what dependecies are not needed fro 3.19, just development version
- Updated: June 17th 2024 by W. Raets (gbWilly)
- changed title for buster compilation to <= 3.18<br/>
- Updated: July 12th 2024 by W. Raets (gbWilly)
- added "Setup a more recent Gambas3 Debian repository"
- Updated: July 14th 2024 by W. Raets (gbWilly)
- small correction in some links that changed
- Updated: Oct 17th 2024 by W. Raets (gbWilly)
- added new versions to "Setup a more recent Gambas3 Debian repository"
- updated version of gambas for trixie in debian official