Jan,

I now have BaseXGui running fine on my Ubuntu 11.04 installation. I'm sending this to the mailing list so future potential users can see that it's quick and easy to install in Linux. The BaseX web site mentions that the system is in the Ubuntu 11.10 repositories, but I wasn't finding it in my 11.04 system. All that I had to do was to add the Debian repository to my list of repositories in Synaptic Package Manager, then click the reload button, and voila, there it was when I searched the Synaptic "All" files for "basex". A few clicks and I had it installed. But it didn't install an entry into the Applications menu, so I located it with "whereis" and launched it from a terminal window at /usr/bin/basexgui to confirm it worked. Then I created a desktop launcher for it, which only had a generic icon. There may be an icon in the BaseX Debian files, but I didn't find it quickly, so I copied the BaseX icon from my previous installation of it on my Windows 7 partition onto my desktop in Ubuntu. (I love that Ubuntu can read into Windows' file system on my dual-boot computer.) I clicked on the icon and it opened in an icon viewer, saved it to a folder in my user home. Then I changed the launcher to use that icon. It's pretty now. It created a database for me from a test xml file, so I'm good to go.

The Debian repository entry in Synaptic is: "deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sid main" (without the quote marks). You should use the appropriate URL for the Debian mirror site in your part of the world. Click on the Debian link at the BaseX.org downloads page, then click "all", and you'll see the available mirrors.

Hope this helps others get started with BaseX on their Linux system,

Stan