anybody able to install free kbasic under ubuntu ?

[mangurian]

I would really appreciate details on how you did it.

They claim on their site that it should workt.

I tried the suggestion on the kbasic web site, but could not get it to work.

[Vergil83]

what have you tried? Did it install ok, just not run?

[mangurian]

set to open with konqueror, then left clicked - nothing happened.

[Vergil83]

set to open with konqueror, then left clicked - nothing happened.

did you install it? What are you left clicking on? Have you tried to run it from the command line to see if there are any errors?

[mangurian]

The Kbasic site says:
- set to "open with" konqueror
- left click and you should get an install dialog
didn't work

Is there a trick to installing .bin SW ?

[Vergil83]

The Kbasic site says:
- set to "open with" konqueror
- left click and you should get an install dialog
didn't work

Is there a trick to installing .bin SW ?

I would try to run from the command line (ie konsole or terminal) then do

./program_name.bin

[oldefoxx]

This is an old thread, but there are still people asking how to install kbasic on Ubuntu. The only reason for requiring the KDE (Kubuntu) rather than the Gnome desktop is that konquorer is able to execute the downloaded bin file as an executable, and konguorer runs on KDE. But you can use the terminal console and call the installer program by preceeding it with a dot-slash (./). There are some other possible issues, and the whole process has been documented in this post:
KBasic on Ubuntu 8.04