What is wrong with the gambas package that you should be able to install from 
mepis?

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On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:41:16 -0400
Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have downloaded the Gambas program, now to decompress the files I
> think that I need to use    tar - xvvjf -gambas-1.0.17.tar.bz2
> /home/alan/gambas
> 

no, more like 

tar xvjf gambas-1.0.17.tar.bz2 -C /home/alan/gambas

but before you do that do

mkdir /home/alan/gambas


> Would that decompress all the files into  a gambas folder??
> 
> The second thing is that as yet I do not have a gambas folder for it,
> and was looking through konqueror to see if I could install a new folder
> but cannot see any options there to do that.

right click in the home directory| create new|folder

> Do I need to use the mount command to install that folder?? and if so
> are there any special commands that I should use please?
> 

no the mount command mounts a filesystem

> thanks  Alan
> 

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