Bah, forget Synaptic. Here is a command you can paste right to the terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal on the top left, with the default install), to have it going in seconds. To paste in the terminal, I believe the default is Ctrl+Shift+V, or you can highlight this and middle click:
(That should get the official stuff running).
When you type that command it will ask for a password, because "sudo" makes it run as root. Just type your account's password. (And don't be alarmed that nothing shows up in the input box).
If you decide to run the Community IDE (GTK version), to have it looking decent you must first run
If you just want the important parts like bcc and bmk (no IDE), you can get them on your PATH with:
If you want that change applied permanently for every time that one user logs in, go to Places->Home Folder. View->Hidden Files. (Shudder at the lack of any organization with these per-user settings. On the bright side, though, they are all hidden and all in one place). Find .gnomerc (shortcut: just type that while the icon view is in the foreground and it should jump to it). If the file doesn't exist, right click in the icon view -> Create Document -> Empty file. Name that file .gnomerc, open it and add the line (assuming BlitzMax is in ~/Software/BlitzMax)
( Or you could open that via the terminal with "gedit ~/.gnomerc" )
If you are just compiling modules, you don't really need to install a Linux distro. Ubuntu's desktop installer is a Live CD, which means you'll get a full OS session running off the disk. You will be a bit low on RAM, and it will be slower than with a proper install, but it should work.
sudo apt-get install libstdc++5 g++-3.3 libasound2-dev libglu1-mesa-dev x11proto-core-dev x11proto-gl-dev x11proto-kb-dev libxxf86vm-dev
(That should get the official stuff running).
When you type that command it will ask for a password, because "sudo" makes it run as root. Just type your account's password. (And don't be alarmed that nothing shows up in the input box).
If you decide to run the Community IDE (GTK version), to have it looking decent you must first run
sudo ldconfig /usr/lib/firefox
If you just want the important parts like bcc and bmk (no IDE), you can get them on your PATH with:
export PATH=$PATH:"~/Software/BlitzMax/bin"in the terminal.
If you want that change applied permanently for every time that one user logs in, go to Places->Home Folder. View->Hidden Files. (Shudder at the lack of any organization with these per-user settings. On the bright side, though, they are all hidden and all in one place). Find .gnomerc (shortcut: just type that while the icon view is in the foreground and it should jump to it). If the file doesn't exist, right click in the icon view -> Create Document -> Empty file. Name that file .gnomerc, open it and add the line (assuming BlitzMax is in ~/Software/BlitzMax)
export PATH=$PATH:"~/Software/BlitzMax/bin";
( Or you could open that via the terminal with "gedit ~/.gnomerc" )
If you are just compiling modules, you don't really need to install a Linux distro. Ubuntu's desktop installer is a Live CD, which means you'll get a full OS session running off the disk. You will be a bit low on RAM, and it will be slower than with a proper install, but it should work.