Problem with GDB Debian Linux 8

[elidorio]

Help, GDB did not install on Debian 8. I'm running Debian 64 bit 8 and Lazarus 1.4.0 fpc 2.6.4
How to how to fix this problem?


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Edson

[zeljko]

Install gdb ?

[elidorio]

Downloaded the *.deb of Lazarus and did the installation.

[munair]

GDB should be in your Synaptic Package Manager. If you search there for GDB (GNU Debugger) it should show up in the list.

[munair]

Or fire up the terminal and enter:

sudo apt-get install gdb

[Eugene Loza]

I also didn't get gdb installed automatically by Lazarus 1.4RC3 debs + no dependency to apt-get install -f.
But installed it by apt-get install gdb and its fine.

[munair]

Lazarus cannot install GDB because the version is distro dependend. Therefore it is also not a dependency. A distro however may suggest a specific Lazarus version along with a specific GDB from its repository. Installing the latest Lazarus requires one to find out and do these things manually. That's Linux.

[elidorio]

Problem solved, I executed the following command:
sudo apt-get install gdb

[Eugene Loza]

Lazarus cannot install GDB because the version is distro dependend. Therefore it is also not a dependency. A distro however may suggest a specific Lazarus version along with a specific GDB from its repository. Installing the latest Lazarus requires one to find out and do these things manually. That's Linux.

As far as I remember it was 'true' for older Lazarus versions including the one from the repository - the gdb was in debs/dependencies. I.e. I have never had any "problem" (not a problem, actually, just a remark to new users) like this prior to 1.4. Maybe, it's the fact that I might have used the repository version first and then removed it and replaced with latest debs from sourceforge (but I'm not sure if I did anything like this always).

[Signal]

As far as I remember it was 'true' for older Lazarus versions including the one from the repository - the gdb was in debs/dependencies. I.e. I have never had any "problem" (not a problem, actually, just a remark to new users) like this prior to 1.4. Maybe, it's the fact that I might have used the repository version first and then removed it and replaced with latest debs from sourceforge (but I'm not sure if I did anything like this always).

Lazarus has no control over how Debian or any other distro packages the application and its dependencies. Some distros don't even consider FPC a dependency. Absurd, but true.

Debian in particular is famous (infamous ?) for breaking up applications into numerous small packages, while leaving out or making optional anything they feel violates their social contract policies.