Gustavo Enrique Jimenez schrieb:
It is like the "can't write to serial port" thread month ago. If you are a developer, you MUST understand your system. The "next, next, next, finish" only works for windows.
It also should work for other systems. Some time ago I could install Lazarus from RPM's on openSuse, so why not on Ubuntu from DEB packages? (I'll come back to the RPM problems later, when I have another working Suse system)
Try to learn about your Ubuntu package system, then try to install a complex DEVELOPER tool.
A complex tool does not necessarily mean a complicated installation, based on rudimentary documentation.
I am not a contributor, I am not a beta tester, I am not a translator, I am not a GNU/Linux expert. I just do electronics with serial port data aquisition, and Free Pascal/Lazarus is a great tool for quick apps development. I use Debian (since Potato): never a problem installing Lazarus (since 0.7.x). You must read and learn how your system works. GNU/Linux, BSD, etc. are not trivial systems. You MUST understand what are you doing.
Somebody else asked me whether Ubuntu was a usable system for developers at all, since the supported software (e.g. boost library) seems to be pretty old. I ran into more problems, coming from openSUSE and trying to install e.g. VMWare and Lazarus, and Ubuntu in a VM. The encountered problems suggest to me that Ubuntu is dedicated to end users, who do not deserve anything but the officially supported software (the click-click install you mentioned).
But actually I try to separate the Ubuntu issues from the Lazarus issues. I hope to solve my Ubuntu-specific problems in the chat, while the Lazarus issues should be fixed in the Lazarus packages, wiki and source code.
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