[fpc-devel] Building 2.7.1 on current Raspbian fails

[Paul Michell]

On Tuesday 21 Oct 2014 13:45:25 John Lee wrote:
> Don't know why you have this problem with wheezy, but can confirm I'm
> running rpi jessie, and the 'sudo' sequence above works for me ok ie does
> 70Mbyte download & installs fpc with no errors. Haven't really tested it,
> but help says it is 2.6.2 -8 rpil+b2 2014/7/21 for arm.
> 
> john

I have just done a dist-upgrade and tried again and as you say, I now
have an installed 2.6.2.  So it would seem FPC is currently broken on
stable Raspbian which is a pity.

I'll see if I have any better luck compiling trunk now!

Thanks John


> On 21 October 2014 12:58, Paul Michell <Paul at michellcomputing.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday 21 Oct 2014 09:31:42 peter green wrote:
> > > Ok, i've just uploaded 2.6.4
> > >
> > > https://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/f/fpc/
> >
> > Thank you, how am I best to install this?
> >
> > I naively thought that would update the version installed
> > when you perform:
> >
> > sudo apt-get update
> > sudo apt-get upgrade
> > sudo apt-get install fpc
> >
> > When I do this on a completely clean 2014-09-09-wheezy-raspbian I get:
> >
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> > or been moved out of Incoming.
> > The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> >
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >  fpc : Depends: fpc-2.6.0 (= 2.6.0-9+rpi1) but it is not going to be
> > installed
> > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> >
> > Do I need to upgrade to Jessie, or do the packages have to be
> > installed by hand?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Paul
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