How To Install gambas3-gb-gui on Debian 10

Learn how to install gambas3-gb-gui on Debian 10 with this tutorial. gambas3-gb-gui is Gambas graphical toolkit selector

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gambas3-gb-gui on Debian 10.

What is gambas3-gb-gui

gambas3-gb-gui is:

Gambas is a free development environment based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions, like Visual Basic(tm) (but it is NOT a clone!).

This package just loads gb.gtk, gb.gtk3 or gb.qt5. It will make your application more desktop-friendly! If the GB_GUI environment variable is set, then gb.gui will load the component specified by its contents.

There are three methods to install gambas3-gb-gui on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install gambas3-gb-gui Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gambas3-gb-gui using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gambas3-gb-gui

Install gambas3-gb-gui Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gambas3-gb-gui using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gambas3-gb-gui

Install gambas3-gb-gui Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install gambas3-gb-gui using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gambas3-gb-gui

How To Uninstall gambas3-gb-gui on Debian 10

To uninstall only the gambas3-gb-gui package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gambas3-gb-gui

Uninstall gambas3-gb-gui And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gambas3-gb-gui and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gambas3-gb-gui

Remove gambas3-gb-gui Configurations and Data

To remove gambas3-gb-gui configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gambas3-gb-gui

Remove gambas3-gb-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gambas3-gb-gui configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gambas3-gb-gui

Dependencies

gambas3-gb-gui have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gambas3-gb-gui package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.