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v5.60 Ubuntu Cannot Display Help Text

Posted: Sun May 14, 2017 6:03 am
by John R. Sowden
Just installed v5.60 under Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I entered the 2 export lines in .bashrc. When I click on help, I get the window with all the selections, but when I: click, double click, or press enter, nothing happens.

John

Re: v5.60 Ubuntu Cannot Display Help Text

Posted: Sun May 14, 2017 10:01 am
by IdeasVacuum
As a workaround, for now, you can use the online Help or download the PDF:
http://www.purebasic.com/documentation/PureBasic.pdf

Re: v5.60 Ubuntu Cannot Display Help Text

Posted: Mon May 22, 2017 4:05 am
by John R. Sowden
I see there were about 185 views, and one reply to download the file and review it externally, which I did, and thank you. But, . . . this issue is not resolved, and I assumed (my faux pas) that this problem would be somewhat universal. Do the gurus watch this forum? Am I not presenting enough data? Is Ubuntu considered MS Windows' step child?

John

Re: v5.60 Ubuntu Cannot Display Help Text

Posted: Mon May 22, 2017 11:21 pm
by mk-soft
Runs with me without problems.

I just pack the folder Purebasic in the personal folder.
Put an icon on the desktop

Then still developer packaged install
sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc g++ libc6-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgnome2-dev libgtk-3-dev
sudo apt-get install libxxf86vm-dev libxine2-dev unixodbc-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsdl2-dev
sudo apt-get install libwebkitgtk-dev libwebkitgtk-3.0-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev
I do not more...

Or I do not understand your question.

Re: v5.60 Ubuntu Cannot Display Help Text

Posted: Mon May 29, 2017 4:37 am
by John R. Sowden
I executed those three lines, with no change. I am not sure what they did, as there is no reference to Pure Basic in the commands, nor are these commands in the install procedure, that I could find.

In any event, the problem that I am having is: when I click on a title in the help system, nothing happens. On my laptop, running Windows Vista, clicking on a title causes the help text for the titled item to be displayed, so I am assuming that this is a Linux issue.

John