How to install Gambas 3.8.4 on Linux Mint 18.3

To install Gambas 3.8.4 on Linux Mint 18.3

Gambas is free development environment and a development platform based on Basic interpreter with object extensions. Designed to run on Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems, its name is a recursive acronym for Gambas Almost Means Basic. Gambas is intended to provide a similar experience as developing in Microsoft Visual Basic but it is not considered to the clone of Visual Basic, merely as a counterpart. This tutorial covers the installation procedure of Gambas Linux mint &ndash 18.3

Installing Gambas

First, make sure you update the system repository by making use of the following command.

linuxhelp user # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB] 
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB]
Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages [742 kB]
Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 Packages [689 kB]
Ign:8 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                                              
Hit:9 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release                                                                
Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages [601 kB]                           
Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe i386 Packages [557 kB]                            
Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe Translation-en [243 kB]                           
Fetched 3,138 kB in 9s (344 kB/s)                                                                                 
Reading package lists... Done

linuxhelp user # apt-get install gambas3 -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  debhelper dh-autoreconf dh-strip-nondeterminism gambas3-dev gambas3-gb-args gambas3-gb-cairo gambas3-gb-chart
  gambas3-gb-clipper gambas3-gb-complex gambas3-gb-compress gambas3-gb-compress-bzlib2 gambas3-gb-compress-zlib
  gambas3-gb-crypt gambas3-gb-data gambas3-gb-db gambas3-gb-db-form gambas3-gb-db-mysql gambas3-gb-db-odbc
  gambas3-gb-db-postgresql gambas3-gb-db-sqlite3 gambas3-gb-dbus gambas3-gb-desktop gambas3-gb-desktop-gnome
.
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Setting up gambas3-dev (3.8.4-2ubuntu3.1) ...
Setting up gambas3-gb-eval-highlight (3.8.4-2ubuntu3.1) ...
Setting up gambas3-gb-form-editor (3.8.4-2ubuntu3.1) ...
Setting up gambas3-gb-gui-trayicon (3.8.4-2ubuntu3.1) ...
Setting up gambas3-templates (3.8.4-2ubuntu3.1) ...
Setting up dh-strip-nondeterminism (0.015-1) ...
Setting up debhelper (10.2.2ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04.1) ...
Setting up gambas3-ide (3.8.4-2ubuntu3.1) ...
Setting up gambas3 (3.8.4-2ubuntu3.1) ...
Setting up dh-autoreconf (12~ubuntu16.04.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...