[Lazarus] Problems with the v0.9.30 AMD 64 DEBs on Sourceforge

[Flávio Etrusco]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 9:54 AM, brian <brian at meadows.pair.com> wrote:
> Hi Mattias,
>
> On 04/05/2011 06:48 AM, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>>
>> brian <brian at meadows.pair.com> hat am 5. April 2011 um 11:11 geschrieben:
>>
>>  > Hi all,
>>  >
>>  > I downloaded and installed the AMD 64 DEBs from Sourceforge, cleaned
>>  > off my 0.9.28 setup onto DVD and then installed v0.9.30 from scratch.
>>  > The process has been a bit fraught. :( This is all using Linux Mint 9,
>>  > which is a fork from Ubuntu.
>>  >
>>  > The first problem was that installing the DEBs gives a couple of
>>  > unresolved dependencies, basically the QT4 stuff. Don't use QT4, so I
>>  > can ignore that, Lazarus still started up OK after a apt-get -f, so no
>>  > worries there.
>>
>> Perhaps you tried to install the
>>
>> lcl-qt4-0.9.30_0.9.30-0_i386.deb
>>
>> ?
>>
>
> Unquestionably. As you know, the files on SourceForge unpack to 19 .debs
> (FreePascal) and 13 .debs (Lazarus) with no indication as to whether there's
> any particular order in which to install them. I just took the unsubtle
> approach, unpacked each into their own subdirectory and then ran a couple of
> "sudo dpkg -i *.deb", first on the FreePascal directory and then on the
> Lazarus directory, figuring that if there was any sensitivity as to the
> installation order, the second pass would probably fix it.
>
>

You could use the lazarus repository for debian/ubuntu:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_release_version_for_Ubuntu

-Flávio