[fpc-pascal] Installing Lazarus on new Debian release

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Rainer Stratmann wrote:
> How can I get Lazarus working on the new Debian release?
> 
> There is much information on the web and it seems like everybody says 
> something different.

What I do is install FPC from the latest binary archive, then compile 
the latest stable version. In some cases (e.g. SPARC) these are not the 
same. After that I use the stable FPC to compile the latest stable 
Lazarus from source.

> I have a script here which works for the past release of Debian, but I don't 
> know if it is still working. And what are keys good for?

The keys tell the installer that the server is OK.

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