[EDIT] @ Juha, in attachment, script to install Lazarus for nearly all Linux distro.
For the compressed file of the Lazarus release, the easy way is to use the DEB file of Mattias, decompress it somewhere (a DEB file is a tar compressed file).
Go in the decompressed file to the directory /usr/share/ and compress /Lazarus directory.
This will be the compressed file for the release.
Sorry, I was busy all yesterday and then fell asleep early. I am getting old ...
Anyway, your scripts for installing dependencies look impressive! Have you really tested with all those distros?
The ArchLinux version may not be as useful as the others because a rolling distro updates their own repo very quickly with the latest Lazarus release. Anyway, a script for it does not harm either.
For Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, RedHat and SuSe they are very useful.
I will test some of them later but I don't promise to test all.
I may suggest you as an assistant release manager for Mattias. Now he does it out of responsibility although I know he is busy with other tasks.
That is, if you want it. That would maybe imply write access to the SourceForge project directories. I don't see why there should be middle men.
I wonder why nobody tested the installation files. I personally don't need them but many others asked for them.
m.abudrais was only one of them.
I would have imagined that all those people rush with enthusiasm to test, but no.