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How do I install Linux Kubuntu daily snapshots of Lazarus etc?

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Peter Williams

G'day All Lazarus people, from 'Down Under',

I think that I need to install the Lazarus and FPC 'daily snapshots' -- since I've encountered a bug in Lazarus 0.9.24 which Mattias tells me has been fixed in Lazarus 0.9.25 -- and the only way I think I can get 0.9.25 is by using the daily snapshots of it.

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Snapshots_Downloads

I need to say that I'm only a newbie at Linux and even more of a downloaded the .rpm files (3 of them) earlier
this morning... however, I don't know the exact command to enter at a 'root terminal'. Please refer to the attachment, which is plain text copy of a 'root terminal' session & it shows that I tried to use the 'rpm' command of Kubuntu... but alas, I was fumbling around in the dark 'cos I really didn't know the exact command to do this -- e.g. I'll admit it -- I didn't really know what I was doing! { Hey, until this morning I didn't even know that there was such a thing as a 'rpm' command. }

Is it possible to have some kind of 'script' (I think they're called) which would install these files by simply running the script?!?

Please tell me the *exact* commands which I would need to enter to install the Lazarus & FPC files.

Best Wishes and Happy Debugging,
PEW *SMILE*

Fond Regards, Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia -- phone (03) 6236-9675 My free website is: http://pewtas.googlepages.com (or) http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs (please visit my free website and let me know what you think about it.) -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: rpm_install_errors_2008_09_11.txt Url: http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/pipermail/lazarus/attachments/20080811/e323a90b/attachment.txt

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Christopher Kirkpatrick
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G'day All Lazarus people, from 'Down Under', I think that I need to install the Lazarus and FPC 'daily snapshots' -- since I've encountered a bug in Lazarus 0.9.24 which Mattias tells me has been fixed in Lazarus 0.9.25 -- and the only way I think I can get 0.9.25 is by using the daily snapshots of it. http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Snapshots_Downloads I need to say that I'm only a newbie at Linux and even more of a downloaded the .rpm files (3 of them) earlier this morning... however, I don't know the exact command to enter at a 'root terminal'. Please refer to the attachment, which is plain text copy of a 'root terminal' session & it shows that I tried to use the 'rpm' command of Kubuntu... but alas, I was fumbling around in the dark 'cos I really didn't know the exact command to do this -- e.g. I'll admit it -- I didn't really know what I was doing! { Hey, until this morning I didn't even know that there was such a thing as a 'rpm' command. } Is it possible to have some kind of 'script' (I think they're called) which would install these files by simply running the script?!? Please tell me the *exact* commands which I would need to enter to install the Lazarus & FPC files. Best Wishes and Happy Debugging, PEW *SMILE* -- Fond Regards, Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia -- phone (03) 6236-9675

Go to the directory where you have downloaded the .rpm files. Make sure you have the latest files for fpc, fpcsrc and lazarus.

The 'rpm' command doesn't work properly in Debian
derivatives like Kubuntu, and you need to convert .rpm files to .dev files using the 'alien' command.
At the command line, change to root (in Kubuntu you do this by prefixing each command by 'sudo' and entering your own password when prompted) and type the following:

alien -c fpc* //this will convert both the fpc and fpcsrc files to debian format and convert the install scripts
alien -c laz*

Then install the resultant .deb files by typing

sudo dpkg -i fpc*.deb laz*.deb

For more information, see

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus#Another_way_to_install_Lazarus_under_Debian

Hope this helps
Regards - Chris

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Swen Heinig
to Peter Williams: G'day All Lazarus people, from 'Down Under', I think that I need to install the Lazarus…

Why don't you use subversion? It's much easier to update. You can get some information here: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Getting_Lazarus

Regards,
Swen

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G'day All Lazarus people, from 'Down Under', I think that I need to install the Lazarus and FPC 'daily snapshots' -- since I've encountered a bug in Lazarus 0.9.24 which Mattias tells me has been fixed in Lazarus 0.9.25 -- and the only way I think I can get 0.9.25 is by using the daily snapshots of it. http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Snapshots_Downloads I need to say that I'm only a newbie at Linux and even more of a downloaded the .rpm files (3 of them) earlier this morning... however, I don't know the exact command to enter at a 'root terminal'. Please refer to the attachment, which is plain text copy of a 'root terminal' session & it shows that I tried to use the 'rpm' command of Kubuntu... but alas, I was fumbling around in the dark 'cos I really didn't know the exact command to do this -- e.g. I'll admit it -- I didn't really know what I was doing! { Hey, until this morning I didn't even know that there was such a thing as a 'rpm' command. } Is it possible to have some kind of 'script' (I think they're called) which would install these files by simply running the script?!? Please tell me the *exact* commands which I would need to enter to install the Lazarus & FPC files. Best Wishes and Happy Debugging, PEW *SMILE* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

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