On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:52:31 +1000 "Peter Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> G'day LS and All, > > On 30/07/2008, Lord Satan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:35:40 +1000 > > "Peter Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Any Ideas will be appreciated!!! > > > > You can try dpkg directly and perhaps get some usefull output if it also > > fails. > > I never had this problem (Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit) but I build the fpc package > > myself from svn via lazarusdir/tools/install/create_fpc_deb.sh. > > > Can you please tell me the exact command(s) I need to enter. I'm assuming > that I need to open a System Terminal (if that's the right terminology) - > however, I'm still a newbie at Linux. Opening a terminal is correct. And since you are new to the linux command line you should try: man man man dpkg And finally to install the package: cd /home/your_user_name/directory_with_your_fpc_package_inside sudo dpkg -i packagename.deb hih _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
