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How to install Basic/VB on Fedora Linux?? I really wanna try it out.

I've tried: sudo dnf install basic sudo dnf install visual-basic

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    There are many BASIC interpreters available for Linux. VB.net is (IIRC) not one of them, as it requires the full Visual Studio which haven't been ported to Linux. – Some programmer dude Apr 17 '23 at 08:45
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    With that said, why do you want to learn BASIC? Even VB.net suffers from some rather archaic constructs that haven't changed much the last 50 years or so, when BASIC was first invented. There are probably much better beginners languages available these days. Python seems like a popular beginners choice. – Some programmer dude Apr 17 '23 at 08:49
  • I don't want to learn it. I just wanna try it out – ignacy Apr 17 '23 at 10:22
  • I don't see closing this question as unclear as being mandatory for reviewers. – karel Apr 20 '23 at 07:27
  • This question has answers here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6067894/vb-net-on-linux – Gwang-Jin Kim Apr 20 '23 at 22:18

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VB.NET and Visual Basic 6.0 do not function in Linux, even under Wine, however searching pkgs.org finds the following BASIC packages for Fedora.

  • basic256 - educational BASIC programming environment for children

    BASIC-256 is an easy to use version of BASIC designed to teach young children the basics of computer programming. It uses traditional control structures like gosub, for/next, and goto, which helps kids easily see how program flow-control works. It has a built-in graphics mode which lets them draw pictures on screen in minutes, and a set of detailed, easy-to-follow tutorials that introduce programming concepts through fun exercises.

  • yabasic - Yet Another BASIC interpreter

    Yabasic is a traditional basic-interpreter. It comes with goto and various loops and allows one to define subroutines and libraries. It does simple graphics and printing. Yabasic can call out to libraries written in C and allows one to create standalone programs. Yabasic runs under Unix and Windows and has comprehensive documentation; it is small, simple, open-source and free.

Neither of these packages can be found at the official Fedora Packages website. On the other hand both basic256 and yabasic can be installed in Ubuntu from the default Ubuntu repositories (e.g. sudo apt install basic256 or sudo apt install yabasic), so maybe you'd want to spin up an Ubuntu VM just to be on the safe side.

The BASIC programming language package descriptions were copied from the results of apt show basic256 yabasic

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