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Good install of Lazarus with Fedora 8

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ron schultz

I had not been able to get Lazarus to compile with Fedora 8. Being a Newbie to Linux I probably had done some things wrong. In the forums I found an install of Lazarus for SUSE by Ignace
http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=3801 I decided to try essentially the same thing with Fedora 8.

The processor is an AMD Athlon BE 2400 so this would be an install for x86_64.

I had tried so much stuff that I wanted to start with a fresh install of Fedora 8. During the install I made sure that I selected Development Library, Development Tools, GNOME Software Development and X Software Development.

After the Fedora 8 install and updates these were the relevant packages and their status as seen in the Fedora 8 Package Manager. Lazarus was the only package that would need to be downloaded.

fpc-2.2.0-10.fc8.x86_64 available fpc-doc-2.2.0-10.fc8.x86_64 available fpc-src.2.2.0-10.fc8.x86_64 available gdk-pixbuf-1:0.22.0-35.fc8.x86_64 installed gdk-pixbuf-devel-1:0.22.0-35.fc8.x86_64 installed gtk+-devel-1:1.2.10-59.fc8.x86_64 available gtk+-extra-2.1.1-6.fc8.x86_64 available gtk+-extra-devel-2.1.1-6.fc8.x86_64 available

In the Fedora 8 Package Manager I did these things in the following order.

Selected fpc, fpc-doc and fpc-src in Package Manager then Apply. Good result.

Selected gdk-pixbuf and gdk-picbuf-devel then Apply. Package Manager asked for install disk and did some checks for glibc? and gtk? Good result.

Selected gtk+-devel, gtk+-extra and gtk+-extra-devel then Apply. Good result.

Downloaded Lazarus. I tried yum localinstall
lazarus-0.9.24-0.x86_64.rpm. Yum came back with missing dependency lazarus =fpc-2.2.0 which was already installed. Do not understand. I tried rpm with ?nodeps. Rpm ?Uvh ?nodeps lazarus-0.9.24-0.x86_64.rpm. That worked fine. As far as I can see Lazarus works as expected. Being a Newbie to Linux I'm not sure why the problem with yum installing Lazarus. I guess something like yum does not know about the when it checked for dependencies.

Now on to trying to get up to speed in Linux.

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