[Lazarus] Problems installing Lazarus on Linux Mint

[Wayne Sherman]

Giuliano Colla wrote:
> 2) get rid of anything related with Lazarus and fpc your distro has provided...

When trying to clean out leftover fpc and lazarus files, also search
in "/etc" and "~/" ($HOME) for these:
(note that some of these are "hidden")

.fppkg (directory)
instantfpc (directory)
fppkg.cfg
fppkg.bak
fpc.cfg
fpc*.cfg
fp.ini
fp.cfg
fp*.cfg
.lazarus (directory)
lazarus* (directory)

> 3) Use fpcupdeluxe,...it might complain about some system libraries missing.

Follow the instructions here:
https://github.com/LongDirtyAnimAlf/fpcupdeluxe

The instructions list the common dependencies and provide an example
install command for debian like systems:
sudo apt install make binutils build-essential gdb subversion zip
unzip libx11-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libcairo2-dev
libpango1.0-dev