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Mandriva 2007 / 2008

1. Install the development packages as root

For Mandriva 2007

$ su
Password: ***
# urpmi firebird-devel gettext-devel libbzip2_1-devel libcurl4-devel libgtk+2.0_0-devel
libkdecore4-devel libldap2.3_0-devel libmesagl1-devel libmesaglu1-devel
libmysql15-devel libomniorb4-devel libORBit2_0-devel libpcre0-devel libpoppler1-devel
libpq5-devel libqt3-devel librsvg2_2-devel libSDL1.2-devel libSDL_gfx0-devel
libSDL_image1.2-devel libSDL_mixer1.2-devel libSDL_ttf2.0-devel libsqlite0-devel
libsqlite3_0-devel libunixODBC1-devel libxml2-devel libxslt-devel postgresql-devel task-c-devel
task-c++-devel zlib1-devel libffi-devel
# exit

For Mandriva 2008

$ su
Password: ***
# urpmi firebird-devel gettext-devel libbzip2_1-devel libcurl-devel libgtk+2.0_0-devel
libkdecore4-devel libldap2.3_0-devel libmesagl1-devel libmesaglu1-devel
libmysql-devel libomniorb-devel libORBit2-devel libpcre-devel libpoppler-devel
libpq-devel libqt3-devel librsvg2-devel libSDL1.2-devel libSDL_gfx0-devel
libSDL_image1.2-devel libSDL_mixer1.2-devel libSDL_ttf-devel libsqlite0-devel
libsqlite3-devel libunixODBC1-devel libxml2-devel libxslt-devel postgresql-devel task-c-devel
task-c++-devel zlib1-devel libffi-devel
# exit

There is no packages for QT/Embedded, so this component will be disabled at configuration time.

All needed packages should be provided by the urpmi command above, but I may miss some of them. If the configuration disables a component other than QT/Embedded, please tell me, and I will find the missing package to update the list.

2. Download a source package

At http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gambas/gambas2-2.0.0.tar.bz2?download for example.
$ tar xfj gambas2-2.0.0.tar.bz2
$ cd gambas2-2.0.0

...or the latest current version being developed

You need the svn client.
$ mkdir trunk
$ svn checkout https://gambas.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gambas/gambas/trunk
$ cd trunk

3. Compile and install it

$ ./reconf-all
$ ./configure -C
$ make
$ su -c "make install"
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