[Lazarus] How do you install Lazarus on Debian?

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 13:26:24 -0600
Howard Lee Harkness <howard.lee.harkness at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> I have done a checkout of the Lazarus svn repository per the instructions
> in http://wiki.freepascal.org/Getting_Lazarus. But when I execute "make" in
> the lazarus directory, I just get a bunch of error messages.
> 
> root at debian:/etc/lazarus# make
> make: -iVSPTPSOTO: Command not found

You have no fpc installed.

You can download the three deb packages fpc, fpc-src and lazarus for
your system here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/

Mattias