[Lazarus] Cannot install Lazarus-0.9.26/fpc-2.2.2 on Suse 10.0, help needed

[Norman Schwirz]

Bart schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> On my rather old computer I run Suse 10.0 (as my second OS).
> I tried to upgrade my existing Lazarus (0.9.24) to 0.9.26.
> I downloaded the rpm's for fpc, fpc-src and lazarus, then tried:
> 
> simenon:/home/bart/downloads # rpm -Uvh fpc-2.2.2-0.i386.rpm
> fpc-src-2.2.2-081004.i386.rpm lazarus-0.9.26-0.i386.rpm
> 
> which gave me
> error: Failed dependencies: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by fpc-2.2.2-0
> 
> I queried rpm for the version of glibc:
> simenon:/home/bart/downloads # rpm -q glibc
> glibc-2.3.5-40
> 
> As far as I can see, there is no glibc-2.4 available for Suse 10.0
> Does this mean I have to upgrade Suse to 10.2 (10.3) in order to get
> the latest Lazarus working again? That would be rather frustrating.
> I still can run Lazarus on my WinME, but I really enjoy having it on linux too.
> I even wrote one minor patch for fpc, which was also nice. I would
> really miss it, if I could not even try to contribute to the project
> anymore...
> 
> Anyone knows why 2.2.2 now needs glibc-2.4, when 2.2.0 was quite happy
> with glibc-2.3? I found nothing in the release notes about this.
> 
> Is there a way to get around this problem?
> 
> Note, I'm rather new at Linux, but I'm not afraid of the console...
> 
> Bart
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Hi Bart,

I'm using OpenSuse 11 and the new Lazarus 0.9.26 and it works.
Installed per RPM (YaST and some little tricks) because of my installed
glibc 2.8, there was no Problem with dependencies.

On my old Suse-Linux 10.3- Live-DVD it seems to be a glibc 2.6 included.
Maybe this info can help a little.

Since there are bugfixes mainly per SVN and not per updated RPM-Packages
(Why???) I will try to check the newest version of lazarus&Free-Pascal
using a fresh and hot Live-DVD from OpenSuse. Maybe it can work for you too.

P.S.: Is there any kind of plugin- Framework planned for Lazarus?