Installing Using DEBs
lazarus / 1-Linux

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Marion · 2010-04-05 20:51

First, I would like to express my gratitude for the DEBs provided on
this site. Thank you!

I have installed the Lazarus and I changed the Lazarus directory to
/usr/lib/lazarus/0.9.28.2/
otherwise I get a boat load of errors. Is there a Lazarus variable I
can use in place of hard coding the version in the path?

When I attempt to Run a generic app (I make no changes) I get the
following error.
project1.lpr(8,7) Fatal: Can't find unit Interfaces used by Project1

I know that I have this problem because of my misunderstanding of how
Lazarus works and how to install it.
What paths (or what ever) do I need to set to make sure Lazarus has
everything it needs to run?

I really want to make using the DEBs work for me since I know I am not
good at installing software in Linux and I want to stay up on the
current version. Ubuntu doesn't update to the latest version fast
enough for me.

I am using Ubuntu 9.10.

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bobo · 2010-04-06 06:25

If you always need the latest version, faster than the Ubuntu package
updates, I would really suggest to bite the bullet and do the SVN
checkout of the source code for both FPC and Lazarus and compile them
that way.

There are step by step instructions here and there how to do this. It
can take some time to figure everything out, but once it is done, you
will be able to always have the latest and greatest version.
Using the SVN does not necessarily mean that you are using an unstable
version, you can just check out specific stable releases if you wish.
However, I found that checking a version out every few weeks is still
good and stable for me.

You can use
http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,6125.0.html   to see
how people did it (multiple people explained how they did it in there)

Basically, you need to have a binary version of FPC first to be able
to compile the SVN checked out version (I always use the latest stable
FPC for this).

This way, there is no DEB, RPM, package manager and dependency
problems after it is done once, and later when any updates happen in
FPC/Lazarus.

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thierrybo · 2010-04-06 17:35

Hi, since several months I use it on Ubuntu, I have currently 3
versions :

the debs from freepascal repositories (adding a new repository to
Synaptic). I advice you to leave Ubuntu repositories, as they are not
up to date if there is a new release.

After a while when you are comfortable with Lazarus you can set up a
second Lazarus from Subversion with the new freepascal 2.4 release.

I also have a third setup with Lazarus from Subversion and Freepascal
from Subversion too. This is just for testing the latest language
features.