[Lazarus] Installed lazarus-ide in Ubuntu18, cannot install package

[Brian]

On 10/23/2018 07:38 PM, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 8:43 PM Bo Berglund via Lazarus
> <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>> lazarus.pp(1,1) Fatal: Cannot find lazcontroldsgn used by Lazarus.
> 
> Ubuntu's Lazarus package is faulty. Just get the sources directly from
> Subversion server and build them.
> 
>  svn co https://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/branches/fixes_2_0/ lazarus_2_0
>  cd lazarus_2_0
>  make
>  ./lazarus
> 
> As an extra bonus you will get latest bug fixes in future by running "svn up".
> My prediction is that you will ignore this advice and start to bang
> your head with .deb packages like many others do. The forum is full of
> threads by those people.
> 

Just out of curiosity, might I ask how you feel about running the
.DEBs downloaded from SourceForge?

Brian.