[TIP] Script for automatic installation of Lazarus and Free Pascal on Mint

[Silvio Clécio]

Hello,

Yesterday I created a script to install the Lazarus 1.0.8 and Free Pascal 2.6.2 on Mint 14 - 64 bit. The installation is done from DEBs downloaded via Source Forge.

For those who want to download the Mint, here is the link to the torrent:

http://torrents.linuxmint.com/torrents/linuxmint-14.1-mate-dvd-64bit.iso.torrent

To download the ISO via torrent you need a torrent client, so you can use the uTorrent:

http://www.utorrent.com

To run the script is very simple, just follow the steps below:

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$ wget -c http://silvioprog.com.br/download/install-fpc_2.6.2-lazarus_1.0.8-mint_x86_64.tar.gz

$ tar -vzxf install-fpc_2.6.2-lazarus_1.0.8-mint_x86_64.tar.gz

$ ./install-fpc_2.6.2-lazarus_1.0.8-mint_x86_64.sh
Be patient because the installation may take several minutes.

Enjoy!

[Gizmo]

But the stable version of Lazarus and FPC that are packaged with Linux Mint 14.1 are not too far behind this anyway? In which case the user can just

sudo apt-get install lazarus

from the trusted package management.

If you'd done the above for the bleeding edge dev version (Laz 1.1 and FPC 2.7.X etc), that would arguably be more useful?

[Silvio Clécio]

But the stable version of Lazarus and FPC that are packaged with Linux Mint 14.1 are not too far behind this anyway? In which case the user can just

sudo apt-get install lazarus

from the trusted package management.

No. It's 2.6.0 and 1.0.6.

If you'd done the above for the bleeding edge dev version (Laz 1.1 and FPC 2.7.X etc), that would arguably be more useful?

About version 2.7.1, I think this topic answers your doubt:

http://free-pascal-general.1045716.n5.nabble.com/TIP-Script-for-automatic-installation-of-Lazarus-and-Free-Pascal-under-Linux-Mint-14-1-64bit-td5712763.html (The installation is done from sources downloaded via Github).

I don't use Lazarus from trunk in production! I use only released Lazarus and FPC stable.

[Gizmo]

No. It's 2.6.0 and 1.0.6.

As I said..."are not too far behind this anyway" - 2.6.0 and 1.0.6. vs 2.6.2 and 1.0.8 - not much in it in the grand scheme of things. Improvements, yes, but enough to make users switch from the trusted packages to your scripts?

I'm not unappreciative of your efforts at all - in fact, it is from my own frustrations (and inabilities) with installing that I read your post. But my frustrations are caused because I want to jump to the more bleeding edge releases. Is a jump from 2.6.0 to 2.6.2 and 1.0.6 to 1.0.8 enough to make me move from Linux Mint package management to bespoke scripts? Not for me I regret.   

[Silvio Clécio]

My script only downloads and installs the DEBs created by Lazarus & Free Pascal team.

He does not use any third package. The difference between him and Synaptic is that my script install the corrent release, not the old release.

I do not know if I understand your question, I'm using Google translator.

[Gizmo]

Sorry - my mistake. I thought you were doing something different. Cool.

[imak]

Thanks for the script, worked perfectly.
'sudo apt-get install lazarus' didn't work - could not find 3 or 4 files that needed to be downloaded.