On Tue, September 8, 2015 11:43, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 11:21:18 +0200 > "Tomas Hajny" <xhaj...@hajny.biz> wrote:
Sharing the response from Mattias Gaertner (for Lazarus) below with the original poster in Cc: (since he isn't subscribed to the mailing list). Tomas > >>[...] >> > I do think that Steph means the FPC tar as Lazarus does AFAIK not have >> a >> > tar-installer like FPC does... > > True. > It provides a source tar (and a zip) though. > > >> Alright, could be. However, if this is the case, I'm afraid that the >> resolution of the file owner in the tar installer may not solve the >> issue >> with requirements of the debian package for Lazarus mentioned at the >> beginning, because dpkg would probably not consider the dependency of >> the >> Lazarus .deb package on FPC 2.6.4 or higher as fulfilled if FPC was >> installed using the .tar installer rather than the appropriate .deb >> package. I may be completely wrong, of course, but that's what I would >> assume based on my (limited ;-) ) knowledge of dependency handling for >> dpkg, etc. > > Correct. You can force it, but I would not recommend that. > > If you can install Lazarus via dpkg then I recommend to install > fpc via dpkg too. > If you can't install FPC via dpkg, see below for compiling Lazarus on > a debian system: > http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus#Downloading_Lazarus_Source_Code > > Mattias > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
