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

[Bill Cairns]

On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 11:27 +0200, Phillip Pare wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> 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.
> 
> Dwayne Bailey has suggested that the Open Office Northern Sotho language
> pack should be within a meta package that carries the translations. Does
> anybody know how to find this meta package on the Ubuntu Fiesty 7.04 or
> on the Ubuntu LTS 6.06 DVD?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Phillip

I am feeling awfully frustrated because after I installed Lazarus I
wrote up in detail how I did it - but I have lost that writeup (together
with my old Dell machine where I had that writeup - how is it that one
never backs up the really important things?

Anyway, from memory now - all the Lazarus stuff you need, including Free
Pascal - can be down loaded in a sing Tar file from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=89339&package_id=204004
It is a pretty heavy download, but as far as I can see it is all
necessary.

Then all you have to do is expand it to a directory and install Free
pascal using dpkg -i fp* (I think that I have that right - someone
please help if I have done it wrong). After that you do a dpkg -i
lazarus* and Bob would be your uncle except there is some stuff missing
still. But never fear, they are all available on the standard
repositories and can be installed using synaptic. If you downloaded
those debs into the same directory that you used to expand the TAR file,
you would have all you need to cut a CD. (I think!)

Life is going to be a bit easier with the next version of Ubuntu because
I understand that Lazarus will be included in the repositories.

Bill