FB 0.20 +Ubuntu 8.10 64 - the easy way

[Per Hana]

On an unrelated topic, why hasn't there been an official .deb package (or rpm) hosted on freebasic.net? That would drastically simplify installation because all the library dependencies would be satisfied by the package manager.

Second to that !
A great program, FreeBasic has been spoiled with lousy installation system.
I managed to install 0.18 and run it after a lot of Googling.
Installing version 0.21 is as if walking to a wall.

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

[Veggiet]

Hey Everyone,

Trying to get back into programming a little. I've tried installing from the options on the download page to no avail, the .run files pop open a terminal but it immediately close and there is nothing installed. Is there any new news for 0.23 on a 64 bit machine?? specifically Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?

I'm tempted to just try it under wine, I really would rather have something native

[TJF]

Open a terminal and type

• cd ~/your/path/to/FBinstaller
  chmod a+x ./FreeBASIC-0.23.0-linux.run
  sudo ./FreeBASIC-0.23.0-linux.run install

(2. line: chmod makes the installer executable. 3. line starts the installation process with root privileges, you have to enter your password.)

[Veggiet]

thanks! :) The key difference from what I was doing is the root privilage. I remember modding Nautilus to have a 'SUDO' option, but I wish it was enabled by default

[badidea]

The link to getlibs-all.deb on Cappy's page is down.
See http://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopi ... =5&t=20978 on how to get freebasic working on recent 64bit Ubuntu based systems.