This is a "heads up" for anybody looking at Wheezy, particularly on non-x86 systems.

Lazarus on the SPARC port is badly broken, in ways that I don't see on older versions of Debian (Etch, Lenny). I don't think this is anything to do with Debian's adoption of multi-arch, instead there's something fundamentally broken with their X implementation.

I'm pretty sure that this is not an FPC/Lazarus problem. I mention it not because I'm complaining, but because there's a possibility that other platforms could be affected: for example PPC or MIPS if it's an endianness issue, or some ARMs if it's something to do with alignment.

Does anyone know a knowledgeable Ubuntu/Linux person in the Dallas, Texas area that could help me install Lazarus
on that OS? I could afford to pay modestly for the help.

I have Ubuntu 12.04 working on a PC and have read everything I can find on the net about this install -- but I'm new to
Linux, so much of what I read is foreign to me (example: one set of instructions tells me that I must install the
Lazarus meta-package using Synaptic -- but I don't know what a meta-package is, or where to find the Lazarus meta-package (don't see it on Source Forge) -- or how to use Synaptic (although I do seem to have installed it using sudo!)

I think I can eventually figure this out (my goal is to learn to use Linux anyway) -- but having a guide in this particular case would, I think, be 300 - 400% more efficient!

Thanks for any help.

I don?t use Ubuntu but i use Mint that is a Debian derivated. On it, i first do "apt-get install lazarus" to install the outdated version. Later, I install the debian version file on Lazarus' home page using the dpkg. If it get somekind of error, generally is solved with a "apt-get -f install". But, well to tell something more precise, we must know what heappens with your system during installation....

Ps.: sorry about any english mistakes...

2012/12/2 Curt Carpenter