[fpc-pascal] Installing fpc

[Tomas Hajny]

On Tue, September 8, 2015 11:43, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 11:21:18 +0200
> "Tomas Hajny" <XHajT03 at hajny.biz> wrote:


Sharing the response from Mattias Gaertner (for Lazarus) below with the
original poster in Cc: (since he isn't subscribed to the mailing list).

Tomas

>
>>[...]
>> > I do think that Steph means the FPC tar as Lazarus does AFAIK not have
>> a
>> > tar-installer like FPC does...
>
> True.
> It provides a source tar (and a zip) though.
>
>
>> Alright, could be. However, if this is the case, I'm afraid that the
>> resolution of the file owner in the tar installer may not solve the
>> issue
>> with requirements of the debian package for Lazarus mentioned at the
>> beginning, because dpkg would probably not consider the dependency of
>> the
>> Lazarus .deb package on FPC 2.6.4 or higher as fulfilled if FPC was
>> installed using the .tar installer rather than the appropriate .deb
>> package. I may be completely wrong, of course, but that's what I would
>> assume based on my (limited ;-) ) knowledge of dependency handling for
>> dpkg, etc.
>
> Correct. You can force it, but I would not recommend that.
>
> If you can install Lazarus via dpkg then I recommend to install
> fpc via dpkg too.
> If you can't install FPC via dpkg, see below for compiling Lazarus on
> a debian system:
> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus#Downloading_Lazarus_Source_Code
>
> Mattias
>
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