Has anybody looked into creating an Ubuntu PPA? Ludo -----Message d'origine----- De : fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] De la part de Juha Manninen Envoyé : mardi 14 juin 2011 19:12 À : FPC-Pascal users discussions Objet : [fpc-pascal] Installing FPC 2.4.4 for Ubuntu / Mint + other thoughts
I found the packages for Debian / Ubuntu / Mint : ftp://ftp.hu.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.4.4/i386-linux/deb/ How to install it? Am I really supposed to download those ~40 packages separately and then install them in some specific order? Other people have brougt this up, too, and I understand why. I just want to have a working compiler for Lazarus SVN versions but it is difficult. I had to change my machine configuration, USB web-stick doesn't work on my Linux, I have a new Windows 7, Mint Linux on VirtualBox etc. It makes me angry that I can't install FPC and Lazarus easily. I know how the casual visitors feel when they can't install easily. For 90% of them it is a turn-off and they go to test something else. That is why I wrote earlier that an easy installation would be a "killer-feature" for both FPC and Lazarus. There would be 10 times more people trying it (100% instead of 10%). How to improve it? For windows, I have explained some errors in the installation instructions. The source link leads to a wrong place. Also, the sources are not included in the default package even they are needed practically always. I wrote earlier about it. Also, if someone wants a compiler fo 64-bit Windows, he certainly selects the wrong cross-compiler because it is mentioned only in the very end. I did the same mistake again just few days ago. On Linux, even a major distro like Ubuntu has so old versions of FPC and Lazarus. Why? I guess the releases should be advertized more to some maintainers. How does it work in practice? Who advertizes to who? Next I will try Suse and Sabayon under VirtualBox, I hope they work. At least they have easy-to-install, recent FPC packages. I really don't know why Ubuntu is so popular... Juha
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