[Tutorial/HowTo] Install PureBasic 4.01 on Ubuntu Linux

[DoubleDutch]

Thanks Thomas, I will take a look.

Was the original pdf in English or are these it?

[DoubleDutch]

Did a quick translation using Google. I know it's not supposed to be distributed unmodified but I hope you don't mind?

http://sinistersoft.com/downloads/PureB ... inners.pdf

[srod]

Have installed Ubuntu 13.10 x64 in a dual boot config and everything is sweet. Purebasic was a breeze to install and get running. (Am amazed that my latest project ran straight out of the box... file paths aside! )

One thing remains... file association; .pb, .pbi, .pbp. Have added the relevant mime types into 'purebasic.xml' etc. but at this point I am stuck. The Ubuntu-tweak utility installs, but will not run on this version of Ubuntu (or so it seems!) Nothing happens when I click it in the launcher.

Anyone know how to proceed manually? I've taken a look at the mimeapps.list file, but it is empty and I do not know how to construct a valid entry for this file!

Who would have guessed this simple operation would, in fact, not be so simple!

Thanks.

[ts-soft]

Open a terminal and type in:

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gksu gedit

or

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gksudo gedit

i can't test on ubuntu.
copy in:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mime-info xmlns='http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info'>
	<mime-type type="text/purebasic">
	<comment>PureBasic source code</comment>
	<glob pattern="*.pb"/>
	<glob pattern="*.pbi"/>
	</mime-type>
</mime-info>

and save the text in: /usr/share/mime/packages as purebasic.xml

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sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime

should do the trick. If this not work have a look on the manpage:

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man update-mime-database

[srod]

Sorted the file associations with Ubuntu 13.10 x64.

The following link showed the way : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De ... plications

[srod]

Thanks Thomas.

I had already done that, but for the life of me I am not sure if that was enough because I cannot remember testing once Ubuntu-Tweak failed to run! Doh!

Anyhow, I added a .desktop file as instructed in the link I posted above and it all works now. As I say though, not sure if what you had outlined did the trick or this .desktop file was the final piece in the puzzle?

It is all working now anyhow.

I can see why people are switching to Linux as this is much nicer than I remember from my last time out with Ubuntu. Heck, my PB code even works... which wasn't the case last time.

[heartbone]

I can see why people are switching to Linux as this is much nicer than I remember from my last time out with Ubuntu. Heck, my PB code even works... which wasn't the case last time.

Indeed.

After using UBUNTU as my main OS for three seasons now, only just this week
have I discovered the power of rolling the mouse scroll wheel while pointing at the Unity launcher icons when using multiple windows.
Mega sweet.

[IdeasVacuum]

...It's not all sweetness and light. I am trying to install Ubuntu 14.04LTS, sharing the PC with Windows XP. Install fails at around the 80% mark without warning. Also, be warned - Ubuntu un-install/re-install can wipe your whole drive, across partitions, without any warning, thus losing anything else you might have on the drive. It is apparently a known 'critical bug' but that does not say much for the testing carried out before release.........

[Frarth]

...It's not all sweetness and light. I am trying to install Ubuntu 14.04LTS, sharing the PC with Windows XP. Install fails at around the 80% mark without warning. Also, be warned - Ubuntu un-install/re-install can wipe your whole drive, across partitions, without any warning, thus losing anything else you might have on the drive. It is apparently a known 'critical bug' but that does not say much for the testing carried out before release.........

It sounds like you're doing something wrong. I use Ubuntu since 2005 (Breezy Badger) and never encountered any problems while creating / formatting partitions. If you install Linux (any distro) next to Windows, then what exactly do you do, dual boot or VM? If VM then it may be that Windows has a lock on whatever that prevents Linux from completing installation. Dual boot should not give any problem at all unless you're out of disk space. But even then you should see a warning.

In general I advice against multiple OSs on a single computer. Sooner or later you will find trouble, no matter how sophisticated boot loaders and VMs are. Install Linux on three partitions, one for root (8+GB), one for swap (4-8GB) and one for home, using the proper mounting points.

Since Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 both have support until 2019, my choice would be Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

[nypaulie]

Clicking on "http://bembulak.bas-x.de/files/pb_ubuntu.pdf" gives a "Buy this domain." message...