[Lazarus] The perfect Linux distro for FPC and Lazarus development

[Henry Vermaak]

On 07/03/11 07:07, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been using Ubuntu since its inception. But recently I found that
> I have to install lots of extra packages just to compile a GTK2 or Qt
> application. Out of the box, Ubuntu cannot compile and link a program
> written with FPC either. Same problems with using Lazarus IDE, or even
> trying to compile the Lazarus IDE itself. A similar problem occurs if
> you trying and compile the latest version of some Linux tool. eg:
> Flamerobin (a Firebird DB GUI admin tool). With the latter, I get APT
> package versions clashes, or it pulls in lots of unnecessary dependencies.

`apt-get build-dep flamerobin` will install all the necessary packages 
to be able to build flamerobin from the source package.  Installing the 
build-essential package is also a must in most cases.

Henry