[Lazarus] Installation of 1.8 RC4 fails.

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2017, Donald Ziesig via Lazarus wrote:

>>> The two fpc 3.0.4 files said that they installed correctly, but all I
>>> can find are versions 3.0.0 and 3.0.2 anywhere on my hdd.
>> This makes no sense.
>> How did you install the two deb files?
>>
>> 
>>> I tried to install the ide but it complained that it was missing fpc 
>>> 3.0.4.
>>> 
>>> This is on Linux Mint 18.1 (Sarah).
>>> 
>>> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>> 
>> Mattias
>
> Hi Mattias,
>
>
> I've done this many times over on many machines (all Debian derivatives) in 
> the past and never had a problem like this.
>
> I validated the checksums on all three files.

I am a bit surprised. The FPC team hasn't created .deb files for the 3.0.4
release yet. So where did you get those ? Maybe they are simply renamed
3.0.2 installers ?

Michael.