[Lazarus] Newcomers with Debian based systems

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

patspiper schrieb:

> I had to create a repository on my local drive and added it to 
> Synaptic's software sources. It wasn't very easy.

That's one way to make the apt package management inoperative, if not 
done properly.

> 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.

I've tried the *.deb solution, and found it working for me :-)
See my notes in the "Getting Lazarus" wiki page.

DoDi