How To Install gambas3 on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gambas3
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is gambas3
gambas3 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!). With Gambas, you can quickly design your program GUI, access MySQL or PostgreSQL databases, pilot KDE applications with DCOP, translate your program into many languages, and so on…
This package doesn’t include anything: it is a metapackage to install the IDE and all the available Gambas components except deprecated ones, the gtk3, and the qt5 components.
There are three methods to install gambas3
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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 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
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gambas3
Install gambas3 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gambas3
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gambas3
Install gambas3 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install gambas3
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gambas3
How To Uninstall gambas3 on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the gambas3
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gambas3
Uninstall gambas3 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gambas3
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gambas3
Remove gambas3 Configurations and Data
To remove gambas3
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gambas3
Remove gambas3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gambas3
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gambas3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gambas3
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.