{"id":4684,"date":"2022-04-06T11:55:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T18:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=4684"},"modified":"2022-04-06T11:55:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T18:55:22","slug":"problems-with-sasm-on-linux-mint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=4684","title":{"rendered":"Problems with SASM on Linux Mint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m scoping out a fourth edition of my book, <em>Assembly Language Step by Step<\/em>. I got wind of a simple FOSS utility that could be enormously useful in that effort: <a href=\"https:\/\/dman95.github.io\/SASM\/english.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SASM (SimpleASM)<\/a>, which is an IDE created specifically for assembly-language work. It&#8217;s almost ideal for what I need: Simple, graphical, with a surprisingly sophisticated text editor and a graphical interface to GDB. It works with NASM, my assembler of choice. I want to use it as the example code IDE for the book. I installed it without effort on Windows, which is why I decided to use it. But I want to use it on Linux.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, I&#8217;ve been unable to get it to install and run on Linux Mint 19 (Tara) using the Cinnamon desktop.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve installed a lot of things on Linux Mint, all of them in the form of Debian packages. (.deb files.) I downloaded the SASM .deb file for Mint 19, and followed instructions found on the Web. There is a problem with dependencies that I just don&#8217;t understand.<\/p>\n<p>I got it installed once but it wouldn&#8217;t run. I uninstalled it, and then it refused to reinstall.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that I am not a &#8216;leet Linux hacker. I&#8217;m a teacher, and most of what I teach is computing and programming for newcomers. The problem may be obvious to Linux experts but not to me. Most of the software I&#8217;ve installed on Mint came from repositories. SASM is a .deb download.<\/p>\n<p>So. Does anybody else use it? If you&#8217;ve got Mint on a partition somewhere, could you try downloading it and installing it? I need to know if the problem is on my side of the screen or the other side.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks in advance for any advice you might offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m scoping out a fourth edition of my book, Assembly Language Step by Step. I got wind of a simple FOSS utility that could be enormously useful in that effort: SASM (SimpleASM), which is an IDE created specifically for assembly-language work. It&#8217;s almost ideal for what I need: Simple, graphical, with a surprisingly sophisticated text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[125,59,32,14],"class_list":["post-4684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daybook","tag-assembly","tag-linux","tag-programming","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4685,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684\/revisions\/4685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}