<div>Hi Howard<br></div><div><br></div><div>On 8 November 2012 21:26, Howard Lee Harkness <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:howard.lee.harkness@gmail.com" target="_blank">howard.lee.harkness@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm a relative n00b at Linux admin stuff, but I'd really like to be able to run Lazarus on the Debian system I've just inherited at my new contract.<br>
<br>I have done a checkout of the Lazarus svn repository per the instructions in <a href="http://wiki.freepascal.org/Getting_Lazarus" target="_blank">http://wiki.freepascal.org/Getting_Lazarus</a>. But when I execute "make" in the lazarus directory, I just get a bunch of error messages.<br>
</blockquote></div><div>Do you have a specific reason why you want to install Lazarus from source (svn)? In general I find it easier in Debian to download the .deb files and install from there. Normally these will also ensure that the prerequisite packages (e.g. fpc) are also installed.</div>
<div><br></div><div>HTH<br></div><div>Chavoux</div><div><br></div>