Gambas is a simple yet powerful application to build your own application using Basic language. Gambas is not Visual Basic clone but it has many similarities. This tutorial is going to show you how to install Gambas3 on Ubuntu 12.10. Be careful when you try to install this application using the following method. In some cases this does not work because this tutorial was originally written for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin.
Steps to install Gambas 3
Add Gambas 3 repository to Ubuntu
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nemh/gambas3
sudo apt-get update
Install Gambas 3
sudo apt-get install gambas3
Now try to open Gambas 3 and see if it works on your distribution.