shell question

[mbohn]

Apologies for the basic question here but it has been a decade or so since I used a Unix shell.

I'm trying to copy the fpc source, fpc-2.2.4, from my Download directory to /usr/local/bin.

I tried to mkdir the new directory /usr/local/bin/fpc-2.2.4 but I get "Permission denied" as a result.  I assume I need to log in as root to do this?

If so could I also do this from my Download directory: cp -R fpc-2.2.4 /usr/local/bin

[Leledumbo]

I assume I need to log in as root to do this?

Or prepend the command with sudo.

If so could I also do this from my Download directory: cp -R fpc-2.2.4 /usr/local/bin

Yes.

[Jonas Maebe]

I'm trying to copy the fpc source, fpc-2.2.4, from my Download directory to /usr/local/bin.

Why are you copying the sources to /usr/local/bin? That directory is only supposed to contain executables.

[mbohn]

Why are you copying the sources to /usr/local/bin? That directory is only supposed to contain executables.

I probably got confused from the wiki:

"If Lazarus complains about not being able to find the Free Pascal compiler, choose Environment | Environment options in the Lazarus IDE and enter /usr/local/bin/ppcppc in the Compiler path box (/usr/local/bin/ppc386 on Intel Macs)."

Where should the fp source code go?

[Vincent Snijders]

If you are system admin, you can copy the fpc sources to /usr/local/share/fpc/2.2.4/

If not, copy them to ~/fpcsources/2.2.4.

Use this path in the environment options for the fpc sources.