[Lazarus] Linux mint install

[brian]

On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:10:28 -0500, you wrote:

Larry, 

Are you by any chance using the Debian version of Mint? It's a few
versions ago, but I had all kinds of weird problems with
Lazarus/FPC/LMDE, and after a few iterations with the LMDE users, I
switched to plain old Debian, and things have worked just fine since
then. 

If you're using the Ubuntu-based Mint, then forget all the above, that
used to work OK. 

Brian. 


>I have tried to remove the default lazarus install with the following
>commands:  sudo apt-get purge fpc lazarus
>    sudo rm -Rf /usr/lib/fpc sudo rm -Rf /usr/lib/lazarus    sudo rm -Rf
>/usr/share/fpcsr sudo rm -f ~/.fpcsudo rm -Rf ~/.lazarus, then downloaded
>lazarus_1.4.2-0amd64.deb. Then I get the following output:
>dpkg: regarding fpc_2.6.2-0_i386.deb containing fpc, pre-dependency
>problem: fpc pre-depends on binutils dpkg: error processing archive
>fpc_2.6.2-0_i386.deb (--install): pre-dependency problem - not installing
>fpc (Reading database ... 220087 files and directories currently
>installed.) Preparing to unpack google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb ...
>Unpacking google-chrome-stable (43.0.2357.134-1) over (43.0.2357.134-1) ...
>Selecting previously unselected package lazarus. Preparing to unpack
>lazarus_1.4.2-0_amd64.deb ... Unpacking lazarus (1.4.2) ... Setting up
>google-chrome-stable (43.0.2357.134-1) ... dpkg: dependency problems
>prevent configuration of lazarus: lazarus depends on fpc (>= 2.6.4) |
>fp-compiler (>= 2.6.4); however: Package fpc is not installed. Version of
>fp-compiler on system is 2.6.2-8. lazarus depends on fpc-src (>= 2.6.4) |
>fpc-source (>= 2.6.4); however: Version of fpc-source on system is 2.6.2-8.
>lazarus depends on fpc (>= 2.6.4) | fp-ide (>= 2.6.4); however: Package fpc
>is not installed. Package fp-ide is not installed. lazarus depends on fpc
>(>= 2.6.4) | fp-units-base (>= 2.6.4); however: Package fpc is not
>installed. Package fp-units-base is not installed. lazarus depends on fpc
>(>= 2.6.4) | fp-units-db (>= 2.6.4); however: Package fpc is not installed.
>Package fp-units-db is not installed. lazarus depends on fpc (>= 2.6.4) |
>fp-units-fcl (>= 2.6.4); however: Package fpc is not installed. Package
>fp-units-fcl is not installed. lazarus depends on fpc (>= 2.6.4) |
>fp-units-fv (>= 2.6.4); however: Package fpc is not installed. Package
>fp-units-fv is not instal dpkg: error processing package lazarus
>(--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Processing triggers
>for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) ... Processing triggers for
>desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for man-db
>(2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for shared-mime-info
>(1.2-0ubuntu3) ... Unknown media type in type 'all/all' Unknown media type
>in type 'all/allfiles' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms' Unknown media
>type in type 'uri/mmst' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmsu' Unknown media
>type in type 'uri/pnm' Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspt' Unknown media
>type in type 'uri/rtspu' Errors were encountered while processing:
>fpc_2.6.2-0_i386.deb lazarus
>
>
>On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys <
>mailinglists at geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 2015-07-24 17:45, Larry Dalton wrote:
>> > What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> No idea, but may I suggest you rather download the *.tar file instead.
>> It is a console based installer created by the FPC team. I've used it
>> for years on Linux and FreeBSD, and never had any problems. I can also
>> install it to any directory (I normally choose $HOME/devel/fpc/),
>> instead if /usr/bin/ or /usr/local/bin/.
>>
>> Regards,
>>   - Graeme -
>>
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