I will do as suggested.

I had in mind an ideal situation so users would have nothing to do
except application installation. How easy or how dificult would be
installing my application is crucial to its success because I'm planing
to try convince domestic (office mostly) desktop users to make the step
to Linux supporting them with desktop OS, office suite, Greek font packs
and electronic dictionaries.

Regards, 
Panagiotis

-----Original Message-----
From: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
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Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 5:20 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [lazarus] Dependencies under Linux


On 4/7/06, Panagiotis Sidiropoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After sending my first Linux Lazarus application to beta testers for 
> evaluation and testing, I got complains even from those advanced users

> because of alot of application dependencies:

This should not be a problem if your software is distributed using a
native package.

Most Linux users should know how to use urpmi, apt-get, synapse or
whatever dependency solving tool is provided by their distribution.
Those that don't know really should be pointed to the correct docs.

The bare minimum is a single RPM package.

If you want to make your users life easier you may need to create
several RPM packages (Fedora, Mandrake, SuSE, because the dependencies
names are different on them) and a Debian Package and maybe even
Slackware and Gentoo packages.

--
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho

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