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Offline Incomple

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VB for Linux
« on: September 01, 2024, 16:35:17 pm »
Good day!
I think I need to ask for a little help from the CamBam Linux community.  I've read in other threads that an extra package (Visual Basic?? I'm still a novice in this realm) needs to be installed on top of mono in order to allow some plugins to function:    Terminal command:  sudo apt-get install libmono-microsoft-visualbasic10.0-ci

Here's my current situation: I had everything running great (CamBam on a Raspberry Pi, mono and VB working) and then I tried to play with some scripts.  CB crashed and I got the idea that mono was somehow responsible, so I uninstalled and reinstalled mono.  Now I can't load plugins (Numerical Move & Select by Type) that I suspect rely on VB.  However, when I attempt to install or upgrade VB, I get this text:

user@pi:~ $ sudo apt-get install libmono-microsoft-visualbasic10.0-ci
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'libmono-microsoft-visualbasic10.0-cil' for regex 'libmono-microsoft-visualbasic10.0-ci'
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Looking over the installed packages on my pi using "dpkg --list" yields a list of several hundred packages, but libmono-microsoft-visualbasic isn't one of them.

So I've come to the conclusion that the package isn't installed, and I don't know how to install it (so some plugins don't run).  And I'm not Linux-savvy enough to work my way through this one myself.  Any help woudl be appreciated, thanks very much in advance!


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Re: VB for Linux
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2024, 18:02:08 pm »
Hello

On a French forum a guy have had a problem to install the VB libmono, not sure it is the same problem .. I've absolutely no knowledge about Linux !

To solve is problem, He installed: libmono-microsoft-visualbasic10.0-cil_4.0.1-3_all.deb

https://ubuntu.pkgs.org/20.04/ubuntu-universe-arm64/libmono-microsoft-visualbasic10.0-cil_4.0.1-3_all.deb.html

he also said it is needed to install libmono-cecil-vb0.9-cil, prior to install libmono-microsoft-visualbasic10.0

https://pkgs.org/download/libmono-cecil-vb0.9-cil

The original post:
http://www.metabricoleur.com/t24800-resolu-probleme-cambam-pour-linuxien-avec-3-plugins#476837

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Re: VB for Linux
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2024, 16:55:55 pm »
Thanks very much, David!  I'll see if I can play around and get those plugins working again.  Worst case: it's just a Raspberry Pi.  Save a few documents to a thumb drive, then re-write the SD card.  Not a huge deal, and probably a decent learning experience.  Much appreciated!

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Re: VB for Linux
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2024, 17:46:21 pm »
I'm just-now finishing up a machine for a client that needed a low-cost, slow processor to drive some pneumatics.  An RPi-2 had all the ports and speed I needed.  But I'm programming the app in Python, using Thonny as my workbench.

I do all my work on it from my laptop via RealVNC viewer, and just transfer important files to a USB stick when I want to save them on my backup drive.

It's a really friendly work environment.  I wish you luck.  At some point, I may wish to fire up VB, also, but probably NOT on a model 2!  ;D

Lloyd
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