Our 11th grade college started yesterday( 3 months after result )
Now, we have Computer Science this year and one chapter in it is Visual Basic.
In the college computers, they have already installed visual basic 6.0 version but it is indeed very slow.
Hence, to practice it at home, I tried to install it on linux.
Now, after browsing the web, I came to know that VB 6.0 was released in 1998 and was the last version.
So, I looked for update MS apps/ IDEs which support VB language and found Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition.
Its free to download and it has the forms support for VB.
But, only an .exe file is available for its installation.
Similar to a common linux user, I tried to use wine for its installation. But, wine is giving me multiple errors like NET 4.6 and above required. I tried to install net 4.6 ( and even latest net 7 ig ) using winetricks. It was installed but it gave multiple warnings I suppose related to 32-bit architecture. I wasn’t able to understand them and thus continued to NET install.
After installation, when I run the executable, its giving me same error that NET 4.6 or abv is requred.
After doing some research and getting responses from senior members of the community like @Daniel_Phillips , ive concluded that its not possible to install VB on linux due to problem in installing NET.
Instead, I will go for Gambas.
Its very similar to VB.
Infact, the GUI of gambas is far better than the age old VB.
I think this could be a good opportunity to point out to the teachers that there is an open alternative to VB Studio. And it might be worth it to use that in the curriculum too.
Visual basic was a 32 bit system that is why i suspect it will not run on wine and 64 bit linux system
You could install a 32 bit linux and then wine then try, but as you have found another alternative then if it works and is close to the version for school stick with that
That may be true but Windows and some Windows programs still need visual basics, even with 64bit Windows.
Only thing I have ever accomplished with wine, is to break Linux, but if the alternative works, then use it!!!
I’ve previously installed Windows apps in Wine that needed some version of DOT.net - probably Autodesk Sketchbook (which I believe is 32 bit - but I could be wrong).
It was practically seamless from memory.
I have Autodesk Sketchbook (Windows) installed on this Pop!_OS machine I’m typing on now… Works just fine… it was probably 18 months or so ago I installed Sketchbook…
I’ve never tried VB or any Basic interpreter on Linux… But DOT.net was reasonable straightforward (i.e. the Autodesk Sketchbook installer [exe] went out and found DOT.net for me)…
There is a Linux native version of Visual Studio Code, but that’s just an IDE. Microsoft do seem to be moving away from Linux - the “Preview” for Teams is no longer supported or downloadable - they tell you instead to run the Web version of Teams in MS Edge on Linux…
* dev-lang/mono-basic
Latest version available: 4.8
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 3,206 KiB
Homepage: https://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/languages/visualbasic/
Description: Visual Basic Compiler and Runtime
License: LGPL-2 MIT
No idea what its dependencies are. It is available in my Gentoo , which is without systemd.
