How to install Gambas 3.8.4 on Linux Mint 18.3

To install Gambas 3.8.4 on Linux Mint 18.3

Gambas is free development environment and a development platform based on Basic interpreter with object extensions. Designed to run on Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems, its name is a recursive acronym for Gambas Almost Means Basic. Gambas is intended to provide a similar experience as developing in Microsoft Visual Basic but it is not considered to the clone of Visual Basic, merely as a counterpart. This tutorial covers the installation procedure of Gambas Linux mint &ndash 18.3

Installing Gambas

First, make sure you update the system repository by making use of the following command.

linuxhelp user # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB] 
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB]
Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages [742 kB]
Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 Packages [689 kB]
Ign:8 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                                              
Hit:9 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release                                                                
Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages [601 kB]                           
Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe i386 Packages [557 kB]                            
Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe Translation-en [243 kB]                           
Fetched 3,138 kB in 9s (344 kB/s)                                                                                 
Reading package lists... Done

Now, you need to install Gambas by running the following command.

linuxhelp user # apt-get install gambas3 -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  debhelper dh-autoreconf dh-strip-nondeterminism gambas3-dev gambas3-gb-args gambas3-gb-cairo gambas3-gb-chart
  gambas3-gb-clipper gambas3-gb-complex gambas3-gb-compress gambas3-gb-compress-bzlib2 gambas3-gb-compress-zlib
  gambas3-gb-crypt gambas3-gb-data gambas3-gb-db gambas3-gb-db-form gambas3-gb-db-mysql gambas3-gb-db-odbc
  gambas3-gb-db-postgresql gambas3-gb-db-sqlite3 gambas3-gb-dbus gambas3-gb-desktop gambas3-gb-desktop-gnome
.
.
Setting up gambas3-dev (3.8.4-2ubuntu3.1) ...
Setting up gambas3-gb-eval-highlight (3.8.4-2ubuntu3.1) ...
Setting up gambas3-gb-form-editor (3.8.4-2ubuntu3.1) ...
Setting up gambas3-gb-gui-trayicon (3.8.4-2ubuntu3.1) ...
Setting up gambas3-templates (3.8.4-2ubuntu3.1) ...
Setting up dh-strip-nondeterminism (0.015-1) ...
Setting up debhelper (10.2.2ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04.1) ...
Setting up gambas3-ide (3.8.4-2ubuntu3.1) ...
Setting up gambas3 (3.8.4-2ubuntu3.1) ...
Setting up dh-autoreconf (12~ubuntu16.04.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...

Now that Gambas has been installed, you can launch it through your Linux Mint application.

To show the tips

To open Gambas

To show the project type while creating the new project

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