I have installed FreeBASIC on my Ubuntu Linux system, and I cannot install it. Can someone please clarify what is going on please? Thanks…

By the way, don't flame me, I am a total fucknut, yes I know, and I should probably be doing the work myself, but I've been trying to figure this out for like half an hour.

What exactly is wrong? Any error messages, weird output, etc?

P.S: While not nearly as strong as the system you're looking at, the BASIC interpreter on your TI-* calculator is fairly powerful, including the option to create programs in ASM. Worth looking into, not as a serious language, but something to do coughduringschoolcough.

I download them, and afterwards I can't open the setup thing to actually put the compiler on my computer. It's fucking retarded lol. I'm trying but it's really hard lol. By the way, thanks for not flaming me.

Are you trying to install from source or using whatever package manager ubuntu has (I'm not familiar with it)?

If it's the package ubuntu is providing that's giving you trouble, I can help you install the source from their website (I'm assuming http://www.freebasic.net/index.php/download is what you're referring to).

check out GAMBAS, (Gambas is Almost Basic). i personally never coded in basic only java so eclipse and netbeans are enough for me…

No it's like, when I go to hit the install button it says something along the lines of my distro can't use it and if it doesn't say that, then it says "run in terminal" and i say yes then the terminal pops up, then closes. I don't understand on how to install ANYTHING on Linux period lol.

alright, well go grab the archive for linux in that link I gave you, extract it, and read the README. if it's not straightforward enough, I can help.

• sudo apt-get install build-essential
• cd (folder where extracted things are)
• ./configure
• make
• sudo make install

xzebrax wrote: No it's like, when I go to hit the install button it says something along the lines of my distro can't use it and if it doesn't say that, then it says "run in terminal" and i say yes then the terminal pops up, then closes. I don't understand on how to install ANYTHING on Linux period lol.

(for ubuntu)

¶sudo apt-get install build-essential

now download the source extract it

¶cd (folder where extracted things are)

¶./configure

¶make

¶sudo make install

Thanks very much Folk Theory. It helped my problem. I'm definitely adding you to my friends list. you've been so helpful lately :)