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Ubuntu 7.04 / 7.10 (Feisty Fawn et Gutsy Gibbon) / Kubuntu
Before going any further, consider using the .deb packages at; http://encryptec.net/software/gambas-packages

These instructions may well work with previous versions of Ubuntu, but I would strongly recommend upgrading to 7.04 before going any further. If you want to find the exact package versions supported on a given release of Ubuntu, it will take time. If you can upgrade first the procedure below should get you going 'first time'.

- First you'll need to get the latest release of the source code. At the time of writing, this is version 1.9.48.

- Next you need to make sure you have the right development packages installed. To do this, start a terminal session (Applications->Accessories->Terminal) and copy the contents of the box below into the terminal. The password it will prompt for will be YOUR password. (note that your userid will need super-user access to your system ..)

    $ sudo apt-get install build-essential g++ automake autoconf libbz2-dev libgnorba-dev libfbclient1
    libmysqlclient15-dev unixodbc-dev libpq-dev libsqlite0-dev libsqlite3-dev libgtk2.0-dev libldap2-dev libcurl3-dev
    libgtkglext1-dev libqt3-mt-dev kdebase-dev libpcre3-dev libsdl-sound1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev
    libsage-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev build-essential libbonobo2-dev libcos4-dev libomniorb4-dev firebird2-dev
    librsvg2-dev libpoppler-dev libpoppler-dev libpoppler-glib-dev libasound2-dev libartsc0-dev libesd0-dev
    libesd-alsa0 libdirectfb-dev libaa1-dev libarts1-dev kdelibs4-dev libffi4-dev libxtst-dev

- Unpack the source into `/usr/src/Gambas`.

    $ cd /usr/src
    $ sudo tar xvfj /home/<your userid>/Desktop/gambas2-1.48.tar.bz2

- Or get a subversion snapshot as explained on the website.

- Move to the Gambas source folder and follow the build procedure. (check out the README file)

    $ cd /usr/src/gambas2-1.9.48
    $ sudo ./configure -C
    $ sudo make
    $ sudo make install

This should leave you with a working version of Gambas in `/usr/local/bin` .. so if you now type in "gambas2" from the terminal session, it should start your nice new IDE.

Gareth Bult

#### Note KUbuntu (wig)

Link on desktop or in menu: the executable is in

    /usr/local/bin/gambas2

You can replace the icon by

    /usr/src/gambas2-1.9.91/app/src/gambas2/img/logo/new-logo.png