[Lazarus] How do you install Lazarus on Debian?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> 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.

Could that be checked for in the makefile? One gets that error even if 
ppcXXX etc. are correctly installed and PP defined.

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