On Tuesday 21 Oct 2014 13:45:25 John Lee wrote: > Don't know why you have this problem with wheezy, but can confirm I'm > running rpi jessie, and the 'sudo' sequence above works for me ok ie does > 70Mbyte download & installs fpc with no errors. Haven't really tested it, > but help says it is 2.6.2 -8 rpil+b2 2014/7/21 for arm. > > john
I have just done a dist-upgrade and tried again and as you say, I now have an installed 2.6.2. So it would seem FPC is currently broken on stable Raspbian which is a pity. I'll see if I have any better luck compiling trunk now! Thanks John > On 21 October 2014 12:58, Paul Michell <p...@michellcomputing.co.uk> wrote: > > > On Tuesday 21 Oct 2014 09:31:42 peter green wrote: > > > Ok, i've just uploaded 2.6.4 > > > > > > https://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/f/fpc/ > > > > Thank you, how am I best to install this? > > > > I naively thought that would update the version installed > > when you perform: > > > > sudo apt-get update > > sudo apt-get upgrade > > sudo apt-get install fpc > > > > When I do this on a completely clean 2014-09-09-wheezy-raspbian I get: > > > > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency tree > > Reading state information... Done > > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created > > or been moved out of Incoming. > > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > fpc : Depends: fpc-2.6.0 (= 2.6.0-9+rpi1) but it is not going to be > > installed > > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > > > > Do I need to upgrade to Jessie, or do the packages have to be > > installed by hand? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > > fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org > > http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel > > _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel