Re: [fpc-pascal] Installing FPC 2.4.4 for Ubuntu / Mint + other thoughts

2011-06-16 Thread Rainer Stratmann
Am Thursday 16 June 2011 00:34:15 schrieb Juha Manninen: Linux is still a superior platform for open-source software. Unfortunately for commercial software it is not. That's not true. Look at http://www.cadsoft.de There is not one Linux but many variations, and supporting binary installs for

Re: [fpc-pascal] Installing FPC 2.4.4 for Ubuntu / Mint + other thoughts

2011-06-16 Thread Juha Manninen
2011/6/16 Rainer Stratmann rainerstratm...@t-online.de Am Thursday 16 June 2011 00:34:15 schrieb Juha Manninen: Linux is still a superior platform for open-source software. Unfortunately for commercial software it is not. That's not true. Look at http://www.cadsoft.de Interesting. I

Re: [fpc-pascal] Installing FPC 2.4.4 for Ubuntu / Mint + other thoughts

2011-06-16 Thread Rainer Stratmann
Am Thursday 16 June 2011 14:59:31 schrieb Juha Manninen: 2011/6/16 Rainer Stratmann rainerstratm...@t-online.de Am Thursday 16 June 2011 00:34:15 schrieb Juha Manninen: Linux is still a superior platform for open-source software. Unfortunately for commercial software it is not.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Installing FPC 2.4.4 for Ubuntu / Mint + other thoughts

2011-06-15 Thread Bart
Juha, I just want to have a working compiler for Lazarus SVN versions but it is difficult. Yes, I recognize this from the past... This is how I set it up on Suse 10.0 (I cannot use the rpm's my Suse is just too old, it refuses installing fpc rpm's since long time ago) Go to the general

RE : [fpc-pascal] Installing FPC 2.4.4 for Ubuntu / Mint + other thoughts

2011-06-15 Thread Ludo Brands
14 juin 2011 19:12 À : FPC-Pascal users discussions Objet : [fpc-pascal] Installing FPC 2.4.4 for Ubuntu / Mint + other thoughts I found the packages for Debian / Ubuntu / Mint : ftp://ftp.hu.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.4.4/i386-linux/deb/ How to install it? Am I really supposed to download

RE : [fpc-pascal] Installing FPC 2.4.4 for Ubuntu / Mint + other thoughts

2011-06-15 Thread Ludo Brands
Resend: Outlook keeps converting to html messages... A quick improvement for ftp://ftp.hu.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.4.4/i386-linux/deb/ is to upgrade it to a repository. Include the attached file in the above directory and you can access it as normal repository by adding deb

Re: [fpc-pascal] Installing FPC 2.4.4 for Ubuntu / Mint + other thoughts

2011-06-15 Thread Peter
Am I really supposed to download those ~40 packages separately Usually, in situations like this, one just installs a meta package with a package manager. The meta package is just a list of required dependencies, and downloads other packages as needed. I installed this one.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Installing FPC 2.4.4 for Ubuntu / Mint + other thoughts

2011-06-15 Thread Juha Manninen
Thanks, there are many ways to install. I used the Bart's system which is easy although it bypasses the package manager. I believe the Linux installation could be improved with build-servers like Suse has and other distros, too. There is no fundamental problem with it. Linux is still a superior

[fpc-pascal] Installing FPC 2.4.4 for Ubuntu / Mint + other thoughts

2011-06-14 Thread Juha Manninen
I found the packages for Debian / Ubuntu / Mint : ftp://ftp.hu.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.4.4/i386-linux/deb/ How to install it? Am I really supposed to download those ~40 packages separately and then install them in some specific order? Other people have brougt this up, too, and I understand

Re: [fpc-pascal] Installing FPC 2.4.4 for Ubuntu / Mint + other thoughts

2011-06-14 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 14 Jun 2011, at 19:12, Juha Manninen wrote: I found the packages for Debian / Ubuntu / Mint : ftp://ftp.hu.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.4.4/i386-linux/deb/ How to install it? Am I really supposed to download those ~40 packages separately Yes. I guess we can also add a tar file that

RE : [fpc-pascal] Installing FPC 2.4.4 for Ubuntu / Mint + other thoughts

2011-06-14 Thread Ludo Brands
] Installing FPC 2.4.4 for Ubuntu / Mint + other thoughts I found the packages for Debian / Ubuntu / Mint : ftp://ftp.hu.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.4.4/i386-linux/deb/ How to install it? Am I really supposed to download those ~40 packages separately and then install them in some specific order