[fpc-pascal] Installing fpc

[Tomas Hajny]

On Mon, September 7, 2015 22:36, Steph Bredenhann wrote:


Hello Steph,

> Thanks for the reply, you are more than welcome to register my email on
> your mailing list. I got the email address in a google search when I
> searched for a solution.

If you decide to subscribe to the list, please, do it yourself on
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> To come back to the response on my email: I've started off by
> downloading the lazarus1.4.2.deb file (I use Ubuntu 14.04) and used
> gdebi and later dpkg without success, the message was consistently the
> fpc > 2.6.4 was required, and although I have installed fpc-2.6.4 the
> result remained the same.
>
> So I downloaded the .tar fail and execute sudo ./install, that was when
> I got the message:
>
> "invalid user: ‘michael:michael’"

OK, so if I understand it correctly, you refer to a tar file of Lazarus,
right? (Otherwise please provide the exact .tar name or preferably the
download URL.) While Lazarus and FPC cooperate closely, this mailing list
is related to FPC (i.e. just the compiler plus RTL and other non-visual
units supplied with it rather than the RAD / GUI IDE built on top of
these) and you might be better asking questions about Lazarus releases in
one of the fora on http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org.

Hope this helps

Tomas