On Wednesday 20 September 2006 22:58, Alan wrote: > Robert Fisher wrote: > > On Wednesday 20 September 2006 9:49 pm, Alan wrote: > >> By the way in the Package Manager I cannot find Gambas listed in any of > >> the folders... which is why I downloaded it.... forgot to mention that > >> earlier. > > > > Open the Synaptic package manager and click on search. > > > > Type in gambas and it is found. > > (Well it was on my system which has the same Mepis system as you and the > > same repositories) > > > > Rob > > well howcome that I have searched each file in the Packet Manager and > have not been able to find it but it will show up when doing a > search??? that doesnt make much sense to me.... it is an older version > 1.0.13 as against the 1.0.17 version I did download so surely I should > be better off with the later version anyway???
imnsho, Yes you are! Keep on with the building of the package. This is the main reason that I will never ever again have anything to do with a 'binary' distribution. In my exp. they are all glamour and no guts, garnished with packages suffering from bit-rot, and dependency hell. ( I'd agree that that particular hell is a lot cooler than it used to be, but my exp. is that all the distributions suffer from it. ) Some binary distributions are worse than others but none are anything even remotely near 'perfect'. OK, my favourite, the source distribution called Gentoo, which I have used for about the last 4 years is not 100% perfect, but it's a great deal better than all the nonsense you have been put through by that Mepis thingie. ps I have just built Gambas in about half and hour. It works, i.e. It pops up 3 windows, but goodness only knows how to actually use it. :-) -- CS
