[Lazarus] Installation under SUSE

Anthony Walter sysrpl at gmail.com
Wed Jan 6 21:21:08 CET 2016


Josef, I am the maintainer of http://www.getlazarus.org.

Unfortunately each Linux distribution can use different package names for
their distribution when compared to other distributions (eg. Redhat,
Debian, Suse). There is no Linux standard for either a universal package
management system or universal package names.

What we users are generally left with is either to depend on the
distribution manager to put the software we want into their own proprietary
package management system, where the software versions may potentially lag
far behind.

OR

We can attempt to build software from sources where we typically execute
run a configure script to check for the existence of binaries and then we
have to use our knowledge to locate the package for our distribution to
install the missing requirements ourselves.

The Linux install script at http://www.getlazarus.org/setup/#linux is a
compromise. It it build mainly around Debian but will attempt to find
certain programs or libraries if you distribution supports it, and at least
tells you the names of packages it's looking for if their binary parts
cannot be found, but realistically it's going to fail most of the time when
your not using a Debian based distro (Debian, Raspbian, Mint, Ubuntu).

What's really needed is a list of all the various distros, their package
manager names and arguments, and the names of their equivalent packages.
This would require me or a group of people to examine each distro and
figure out the differences, then merge the result into a single script. Me
personally installing all the different distributions (possibly using a
virtual machine) and mapping out all these differences is not something I
want to commit time to (and it would take a significant amount of time).

If you want to figure out the package names for Suse, and research the
package manager check for install and package manager install programs plus
arguments, along with the names of the packages required to run lazarus,
you can send that info to me at admin at getlazarus.org and I can include it
within the Linux install script if Suse is detected as the current
distribution.
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