[Lazarus] Linux mint install

[brian]

On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 17:12:06 -0500, you wrote:

>Using linux mint 17.1 Rebecca
>

OK, scratch the comment about LMDE (I assume what you're using is the
Ubuntu-based version?). 

Brian. 

>Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jul 24, 2015, at 16:26, brian <brian at meadows.pair.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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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