I have spent four days on this..
But I am starting from the very beginning.
I am trying to install Free Pascal and Lazarus on a Pentium 4 machine with no other operating system installed.
Two days were spent trying to get to grips with Ubuntu 12.04.4 but it defeated me, it did install and it does run but I make many problems including such things as the terminal going into invisible (white on white?) mode. But I did get Lazarus installed and tried for a "Hello world" program which gave an error which I tried to capture with a screen snapshot but that failed by which time I forgot what the error was!
So I put that aside and installed Ubuntu 8.04 i386 which I had a CD for and it installs OK, no problems.
Once again I downloaded Lazarus_1.0.14-0_i386.deb, fpc-2.6.2-0_i386.deb and fpc-src_2.6.2-0_i386.deb. This time I used the package installer that came with Ubuntu 8.04 to install them but when I got to installing Lazarus I got..
Dependency not satisfiable libgtk2.0-dev can someone please explain what this error is and is it something I can fix?
Is it too much to expect Free Pascal and Lazarus to run on that old Ubuntu?
Thanks
MrJohn in New Zealand