{"id":45585,"date":"2024-02-19T11:47:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T11:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=45585"},"modified":"2024-02-19T11:47:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T11:47:17","slug":"install-gambas-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2024\/02\/install-gambas-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install New Gambas 3.19.0 in Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gambas released new 3.19.0 few days ago. Here’s the new features and how to to install guide for Ubuntu users!<\/b><\/p>\n

Gambas is a full-featured object-oriented language and development environment built on a BASIC interpreter. It’s made up of a compiler, interpreter, archiver, scripter, development environment, and many extension components, for easily developing command-line, GTK2\/GTK3, Qt, Database, Web, SDL applications.<\/p>\n

The latest version so far is Gambas 3.19.0 that includes many exciting new features. First, as you see above, it has a new app icon<\/b> that’s called gambas-thin<\/code>. Though, I personally prefer the old one a bit more.<\/p>\n

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old gambas3 icon<\/p><\/div>\n

The new release brings huge improvements to interpreter<\/b>, to make it faster than Python, Perl and Java interpreters in all benchmarks!
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For Linux, the IDE can now generate AppImage<\/code> package, which is an universal Linux package format (run in sandbox) to launch software application without installation. And, Wayland, the default session in recent GNOME Desktop (default in Ubuntu and Fedora), now has the gb.media<\/code>\u00a0and\u00a0gb.media.form<\/code> components, and better GUI components support.<\/p>\n

Other new features in Gambas 3.19.0 include:<\/p>\n