Installing on ASUS Eee PC 900 (Linux)

[berndnoetscher]

I do not know how exactly, but a German user wrote it in a private email. He downloaded all needed Qt files and ignored the abortation of the installation process when reaching 80% (only the desktop links are not created then).

[martyntwright]

OK, I finally have Kbasic running on my ASUS Eee pc 900(Linux).
Thanks for the help on this forum and the ASUS forum: http://forum.eeeuser.com

I performed the rather scary steps listed on: http://wiki.eeeuser.com/addingxandrosrepos
Then was able to run: sudo apt-get install libqt4-sql, suggested by kkbs

I like the interface and features. Its only early days but I have had several crashes whilst in the ide.
I'm not doing anything more that adding a few controls to a form, like label, textbox, button and listbox.
Then I added some code to the button event to add items like the date and time to a listbox when the button is pressed.
It sometimes happens when I 'Run' the app in the ide, othertimes I just click on an option in the ide.
The symptom is that the ide just freezes. I tried to kill the kbide which made the screen go away, so that I was
able to run another instance of kbide, but the original kbide was still there, and would not go until I rebooted.
I'm sorry its a bit vague at the moment, I will make careful notes the next time it happens.
I don't know if this is a problem with hardware, libraries or kbasic itself. I plan to install it on a pc running Ubuntu 8,
and see if I get similar problems.

As an aside, whilst trying to find a solution to the kbasic installation problem, I downloaded and installed Eclipse,
on my ASUS Eee and am in the process of re-teaching myself Java. I dabbled with Java several years ago in a command line
environment, but I have to say with Eclipse's GUI it is a dream to use and with the SWT libraries makes it a serious
competitor to basic.

[berndnoetscher]

He wrote an email to me in German. Unfortunetaly, am not sure if he speaks English. His user name is "Werner_Bechtold".
Anyway, it is important that your eee supports the newest version of Qt 4.4. I will upload the new kbasic soon, which comes with Qt 4.4. I fear it won't be available, without compiling it yourself.

[pa0akv]

Hello, I also installed Kbasic on a Eee PC 900 and installed libqt4-sql afterwards. Kbasic seems to work only after
I tried making a form with one button and a label. System stops after 20% building and I was not able to start it again.

Is this because of the installing order ?
Is there a newer version for Linux available. I am very interested while I am a vb user since version 4...

greetings Andre

[berndnoetscher]

The current linux version is far outdated (it's from February 2008). I am currently installing the newest openSUSE 11.0 and creating a new package based on Qt 4.4. I strongly recommend to use only the newest versions.

[ccanavino]

hello forum,
I recently purchased asus 900 and would like to install kbasic. no linux experience but I have read posts on this and eee forums.and installed sql per posts but when attempting to run installer get. this message home/user/installer_kbasic_professional_linux.bin: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /home/user/installer_kb
a search of files shows libc.so.6 exists but properties does not indicate version (using out of box simple file manager)
I attempted to run installer program from file manager konsole.
Please excuse my ignorance, do I have to put installer....bin in a particular directory. Any help would be appreciated.
Regards,
Curt

[berndnoetscher]

The error message says that you need a particular file installed on your eee in order you will be able to run the installer. Maybe creating a link from existing file would help.
Without it, it won't run and which place you choose for your installation is not important as long it is in your home directory.

[kkbs]

I do not know how exactly, but a German user wrote it in a private email. He downloaded all needed Qt files and ignored the abortation of the installation process when reaching 80% (only the desktop links are not created then).

This problem is probably caused because the KBasic installer (probably) assumes that the desktop folder is ~/Desktop. In localized versions of Gnome this folder is usually named in the local language, therefore ~/Desktop does not exist or is not writable.