[ubuntu-za] Free Pascal and Lazarus - Delphi compatibility on Linux

[Jan Groenewald]

Hi

On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 11:27:58AM +0200, Phillip Pare wrote:
> I would like to install a) Free Pascal with the Lazarus libraries and b)
> the Northern Sotho localisation of Open Office in a Tux Lab in a remote
> rural school in Limpopo. They do not have internet access in their
> laboratory so I need to burn the necessary files to a DVD and then
> physically carry out the install on their Tux Lab server.
> The Lazarus is necessary for the school to offer Higher grade Computer
> Science (ie IT) using their Linux machines.
> If anybody has experience in this area, please could they give me an
> idea of all the files that I should download for the job.
> I have burnt the Fiesty 7.04 desktop -i386 DVD from the University of
> Pretoria Mirror, but I can't seem to find the Lazarus files on this DVD.

Is the tuxlab running dapper or feisty? You need the same packages.

Install a tuxlab server. Do not run apt-get clean at any point. 
Install all the packages you need, such as

gpc gnu pascal
gpc*
fp-compiler free pascal	
fp-*
language-support-nso
language-pack-nso
language-support-st
language-pack-st

run aptitude search lazarus, aptitude search pascal, aptitude search
sotho, to see which pacages you might need.

then install apt-move. then run apt-move to put all downloaded packages
into a directory, and burn that and take it with to use.
http://www.google.com/search?q=apt-move

Or, take them a whole mirror of dapper and feisty. Probably feisty.

cheers,
Jan

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