[Lazarus] Trouble [re-]installing fpc from SourceForge (and other sources)

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sun, 4 Dec 2016 14:32:22 -0500
Donald Ziesig via Lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

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> It seems that the apt metadata got corrupted.  fpc was not the only 
> package that would not reinstall properly.  I had to reload the entire 
> thing and clear the apt cache.

Never had such a failure.

>  I installed the original fpc and it worked.

:)

 
> I then removed fpc and downloaded lazarus-project_1.6.2.  Lazarus worked 
> (even though the installation said that there are 88 packages missing).  

Normal.

> Where can I find out which packages are needed and how to install them?

For example 'apt-get -f install'.

Mattias