Hi,

I just want to let you know, that I am still active for a lazarus installation using fink. At least some of the problems Paul encounterd should be solved by this. "fink install lazarus" will resolve all dependencies for freepascal, the sources and libs like gdkpixbuf. It will also put a link to the lazarus application into /Applications/ Fink, so new users will have less of a problem finding it. The setup is also supposed to offer three versions, carbon, gtk and possibly gtk2. The current implementation if based on the dated 0.9.24 version and I am not going to put much more effort into this, but wait until the 0.9.26 release is out. I already did a number of test, so finishing up should be possible within a few weeks.

Installation with fink means all the nitty gritty details live in / sw/..., which can produce problems on its own and surely will. However, the main advantage of fink is that the combo "fink purge lazarus" and "fink purge fpc" will properly take care of uninstalling including preference files. As much as i can say on the basis of my experinces with fink, it should be possible to do all corrections and settings within fink.

All the best - Michael Schindler, aka mischi.
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