[fpc-pascal] Can fpc 3.0 release be installed using apt-get on Linux Mint?

[Bo Berglund]

On Mon, 7 Dec 2015 22:16:26 +0100, Mattias Gaertner
<nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:

>> Now I have to deal with Lazarus, but that is another list/forum...
>
>Lazarus needs libgtk2.0-dev, which should automatically install
>libgtk2.0-common.

I looked into my Raspberry Pi2 install notes and found these
dependencies for Lazarus:

Get additional packages:
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apt-get update
apt-get install -y libx11-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libcairo2-dev
gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 libpangox-1.0-dev xorg-dev libgtk2.0-dev
libpango1.0-dev

Are most of these superfluous? Is it enough with libgtk2.0-dev?

Then concerning Lazarus itself:

Get the Lazarus sources: 
------------------------
svn co http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/trunk lazarus

I found that I really would like to run on some form of fairly stable
source, so what would be the correct tag to use in place of trunk?


>Lazarus 1.6RC1 will be available soon and it provides deb
>packages for FPC 3.0.0 and Lazarus.
>

Will there be a tar package like for fpc or should I go for an svn
checkout?
Is there an RC tag for Lazarus?


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden