My installation procedure of Lazarus on OPENSuse
lazarus / 1-Linux

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Ignace · 2007-05-16 21:39

OK, here my contribution to the community.
Installing Lazarus on Linux can be a pain in the ass. Here i describe,
step by step, what I did to install this thing on OPENSuse 10.2.

Download fpc RPM from Lazarus download site and install.
Download fpc source RPM from Lazarus download site and install .
Download gdk-pixbuf RPM from www.rpmseek.com and install.
Download lazarus RPM from Lazarus download site and install.
Install glibc-devel with YAST (could be done manually from rpmseek.com
also)
Install libx11-dev with YAST (could be done manually from rpmseek.com
also)
Install gtk-devel with YAST (could be done manually from rpmseek.com
also)

At rpmseek.com you can search for packages given the correct name.
Make sure the names are exact.

Installing the RPMs as root with command:
rpm -ivh packagename.rpm

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beli0135 · 2007-05-17 03:07

You forgot one crucial thing:
edit /etc/fpc.cfg and enable (discomment) paths

otherwise will give compile error

However, if you like updating lazarus often with daily snapshots, I
recommend to install lazarus source and compile/install directly with
#make clean all

...or backup your fpc.cfg, disable write...

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Ignace · 2007-05-17 11:33

I didn't have to edit that file. Now that is what I hate about Lazarus
installation. It just seems the required steps differ from machine to
machine, from distro to distro.  I just wish there was one setup
routine with all possible required packages in them. Wishful thinking
...

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Vincent Snijders · 2007-05-17 11:37

I think that is because Linux is to fragmented. On the other hand, on
windows one installer works on all windows versions after windows 95.

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mschnell · 2007-06-05 08:02

In OpenSuse 10.2 I just d/lded the three RPMs from the Lazarus
download site and started them (the "Lazarus" RPM last) (which
launched the "installer" program).

That did everything necessary. Downsite: it took three hours with
nearly 100% CPU time (on a 1 GHz machine) and nearly no disk activity.
On a 3 GHz machine it took one hour (no wonder).

-Michael

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felipemdc · 2007-06-05 09:35

I think you downloaded the source RPM instead of the normal RPMs.
Installing normal RPMs should never take hours or consume lot's of
processing power. For me it takes about 3 minutes or less, and even on
very old machines (400MHz or so). It sounds almost like you are
compiling Free Pascal. Actually not even this, because I don't ever
remember Free Pascal taking so much time to compile.

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mschnell · 2007-06-05 12:42

Quote from: "sekel"It sounds almost like you are compiling Free
Pascal. Actually not even this, because I don't ever remember Free
Pascal taking so much time to compile.

Nope. The processes that ran with 100% CPU nearly all the time were
"ZEN" (or similar) and "update-stats".

-Michael

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mschnell · 2007-06-08 10:36

Uninstalling ZEN ZMD and friends (like rug) and beagle made my systems
a lot faster.

-Michael

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langstth · 2007-08-17 11:52

This was very helpfull for me, after several link error messages, I
followed your installation procedure and my first "Hello world"
program runs just fine.

gdk-pixbuf was already installed.
Installing glibc-devel, libx11-dev and gtk-devel with YAST  did the
trick.

No editing of edit /etc/fpc.cfg was necessary.
Using Linux openSUSE 10.2 DVD version.

Theo Langstraat