installation Aspire One how-to
lazarus / 1-Linux

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leo · 2009-04-01 11:16

This installation is in three parts and you will need a net
connection, the parts are:-

 1). Enable the desktop menu
 2). Download and install software
 3). Install development dependencies


1). ENABLE THE DESKTOP MENU

    1a). Press ALT F2 (run dialog)
    1b). Type in the dialog 'XTERM' and click run
    1c). In terminal window enter command 'XFCE-SETTING-SHOW'
    1d). Left mouse click the desktop icon in the dialog
    1e). Select behaviour tab
    1f). Tick 'show desktop menu on right click'
    1g). Close all open windows and dialogs
    1h). right click on the grey desktop to see menu working.

2). DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL SOFTWARE

    2a). The following software rpm packages need to be downloaded
           and saved to the Download folder on the Aspire One netbook

           1.   fpc-2.2.2-0-i386.rpm
           2.   fpc-docs.2.2.2-0.i386.rpm
           3.   fpc-src-2.2.2-081004.rpm
           4.   lazarus-0.9.26.2-0.i386.rpm

           ** Go to the download area to search/get these files

    2b). Using the AA1's file manager,navigate to the downloads folder
and double left mouse click
          on each rpm package downloaded in the same sequence as above
to install Free Pascal
          and the lazarus IDE.  ( apply any dependency request )

           ** Do-not run the Lazarus IDE yet, Development dependencies
need to be installed

3). INSTALL DEVELOPMENT DEPENDENCIES

    3a). The following development dependencies need to be installed

          1. Xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi-7.2-3.fc8.noarch
          2. Libx11-devel-1.1.3-4.fc8.i386
          3. Libx1-devel-1.1.3-1.fc8.i386
          4. Glibc-devel-2.7-2.i386
          5. X-Software Development
         

     3b). To install the above five dependencies (This is where the
menu tweak in No1
            above comes in! ) Use the following procedure/method.

     3c).  Right mouse click on the AA1's desktop (grey area ) to
activate the pop up menu
            and navigate to the system menu ADD/Remove softeware ( you
will need to type
            in your root password )

     3d). In the dialog that pops up, select the search option tab and
search for the first four
           dependencies and install them.( you can shorten the names
i.e. xorg-x11 or libx11-dev
           when searching if you like)

           ** Don't worry about additional dependencies or error
messages, just apply and
               install anyway

     3e).  As with 3c and 3d above but this time select the browse
option tab then left side Development
            and on the right side select 'X-Software Development'

           ** Again don't worry about additional dependencies or any
error messages
             just apply and install anyway



    **  Any other dependencies or components you might need will need
to be installed


I've done this installation method a number of times on the AA1 even
on new OS install, it works
every time and no fonts missing


Hope this helps, enjoy lazarus delphi guys!


Leo


PS To run Lazarus, right click grey desktop area, navigate to the
Development menu, you will find
     the menu item lazarus, click it to start the IDE up.