Would anybody happen to have a 'ready to go' deb package to install fpc ver 2.4 (or better) - something that installs the compiler / sources / etc in all the right places ?

I have been chasing this around in circles for hours now - which completely lowers ones estimation of one's abilitys :)

Not really understanding linux packaging yet, I have downloaded 'full' packages from various places, all containing multiple debs. I would have thought a 'package' would do this for me ?

Do these need to be installed individually (and in a specific order)?, cause the 'all' deb certainly doesnt do it.

Using Ubuntu i386 10.04 Alpha.

really appreciate it (or even a link to a 'simple' method)

Hi Steve.

I've found that the best way to install FPC using a single package for Ubuntu is actually to download the .rpm version and corvert it using "alien". The only thing you don't get using this method is the FPC source code, but you can download that seperately from the .tar.gz file.

If you are not familiar with alien the commandline to convert from .rpm to .deb file is:

sudo alien -c -v fpc-2.4.0-1.i386.rpm

-c) to convert any script that might be used.
-v) tell alien to be verbose about what it's doing (not actually needed but nice to have).

I hope that helps.

Kind regards,
Torsten Bonde Christiansen.

SteveG wrote

Do these need to be installed individually (and in a specific order)?, cause the 'all' deb certainly doesnt do it.

I normally download all the .deb files to an empty directory and then do: sudo dpkg -i *.deb

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Getting_Lazarus#An_alternative_repository

https://launchpad.net/~paul-climbing/+archive/ppa

bye

To those whom answered this - thanks muchly
I now have it working (actually tried all three ways to learn about them) - all work well.
Just shows how much more many of us have to learn about linux as yet