[Solved] lazarus_1.ORC1-0_amd64.deb

[guest48180]

I have the previous version of Lazarus installed on my box (Linux Mint 13 Mate). I tried to install the latest release and got this error from the Debian package installer:

Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: fpc (>= 2.6.0)|fp-compiler (>= 2.6.0)

Come on, man  It can't be this difficult to install one package on top of the other. Is it? Any help wld be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[ludob]

On the same page you found lazarus 1.0 rc1 http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20Linux%20amd64%20DEB/Lazarus%201.0RC1/ you'll find also the fcp and fpc source packages needed.

I would stay away from the 1.0rc1 deb release for linux 64 for the moment though. You can't rebuild lazarus, hence no additional packages can be installed. See http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=22579.

[DelphiFreak]

Why does the user need to download three .deb files to install lazarus?

Users coming from the "MS-World" expect ONE installer.  e.g. setup.exe

If you want to try the fresh "SVN"-Version you could try this:
Open a command line and type

sudo apt-get install subversion    <Now press ENTER>

svn co http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/trunk lazarus  <and press ENTER again>

cd lazarus     <and again>

svn co http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/trunk fpc  <and again>

make        <and again>

[ludob]

Why does the user need to download three .deb files to install lazarus?

You don't have to if you have already fpc 2.6.0 installed. Debian sid for example comes with fpc 2.6.0 since a while already. A package can not install files from other packages which are potentially conflicting. Debian sid has for example made some changes to the default 2.6.0 fpc.cfg to accommodate for multi arch binutils. That is how packages and dependencies work. If your repository doesn't have the required dependencies you have to install them manually.

Note also that the single fpc deb is already a major concession to the "install only what you need" philosophy of deb packages. The official 2.6.0 deb distribution requires you to install the needed debs from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/Linux/2.6.0/deb/ . 41 debs to choose from

[DelphiFreak]

Most downloaded distros at the moment are mint and ubuntu.

I use mint and get from the offical repo the fpc 2.4.4

[marcov]

Most downloaded distros at the moment are mint and ubuntu.

I use mint and get from the offical repo the fpc 2.4.4

Don't forget to file an update request with the distribution of your choice if it ships an outdated revision.