On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 11:21:18 +0200 "Tomas Hajny" <xhaj...@hajny.biz> wrote:
>[...] > > I do think that Steph means the FPC tar as Lazarus does AFAIK not have a > > tar-installer like FPC does... True. It provides a source tar (and a zip) though. > Alright, could be. However, if this is the case, I'm afraid that the > resolution of the file owner in the tar installer may not solve the issue > with requirements of the debian package for Lazarus mentioned at the > beginning, because dpkg would probably not consider the dependency of the > Lazarus .deb package on FPC 2.6.4 or higher as fulfilled if FPC was > installed using the .tar installer rather than the appropriate .deb > package. I may be completely wrong, of course, but that's what I would > assume based on my (limited ;-) ) knowledge of dependency handling for > dpkg, etc. Correct. You can force it, but I would not recommend that. If you can install Lazarus via dpkg then I recommend to install fpc via dpkg too. If you can't install FPC via dpkg, see below for compiling Lazarus on a debian system: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus#Downloading_Lazarus_Source_Code Mattias _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal