[Lazarus] Newcomers with Debian based systems

[patspiper]

Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> Nonetheless two problems remain:
> - the help is installed, but into the wrong directory (/usr/share/...)
> - fpc 2.2.4 is installed, too old when switching to SVN trunk later
>
> I hope that the Help issue is fixed soon. Research for SVN and fpc 2.4 
> goes on...
>
Debian packages for fpc 2.4.0 exist.

I had to create a repository on my local drive and added it to 
Synaptic's software sources. It wasn't very easy. I learned later on 
that you could use the command dpkg -i *.deb to install packages from 
the current directory; haven't tried it though.