Lazarus: Missing FPC Sources/Directory

Question

I'm trying to install Lazarus for Ubuntu 14.04 and it's telling me that it cannot find a directory.

So I think some library or something is missing, but I don't know where to find it (searching online shows nothing unless you know what to search for) and don't know how to "install" it.

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How can I install this thing? How do I get the FPC sources it's asking for?

blade19899 · Answer 1 · 2014-12-18T09:38:40.180

I will show you how to install lazarus per the official wiki.

First, remove the current installed lazarus, like so:

sudo apt-get remove lazarus*

Clean up packages that the old lazarus installation might have left lying around, that might conflict whit the packages from the lazarus repository.

sudo apt-get autoremove

Download the lazarus key:

gpg --keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu:11371 --recv-keys 6A11800F

Add the lazarus key:

gpg --export 6A11800F | sudo apt-key add -

Add the lazarus repo to a lazarus.list file:

echo "deb http://www.hu.freepascal.org/lazarus/ lazarus-stable universe" > lazarus.list

Move it to your sources.list

sudo mv -v lazarus.list  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lazarus.list

update your sources list:

sudo apt-get update

install lazarus:

sudo apt-get install -t lazarus-stable lazarus

If you get a missing FPS/Sources, the documentation had this to say:

WOW! You get a message: "Free Pascal sources not found". Just follow the instructions and indicate your Free Pascal Compiler source directory in the panel: "Environment->Options->Files". As explained earlier, on my computer this should point to "/usr/local/src/fpc-2.4.2". Note that when you change this folder, you should click on "Environment / Rescan_FPC_source_directory". - Installing Lazarus - Free Pascal wiki

Reference:

Lazarus release version for Ubuntu - Lazarus wiki

I followed the answer and when I launch Lazarus now it shows me a messagebox saying that I need to downgrade (because there is another version? Even though I removed it per your answer). Anyway, the only option (other than Abort) was to Downgrade. I tried that and now it just says the same as before, missing fpc's, directory not found. — jay_t55, Dec 18 '14 at 09:32

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 18 '14 at 08:47

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In order to install Lazarus try installing the below first,

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install synaptic

After installing the above use the below command to fpc source.

sudo dpkg -i fpcsrc.deb

Once done with all the above proceed installing Lazarus. Hope this helps.

answered Dec 18 '14 at 08:47

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Why is synaptic needed if you are going to use dpkg? It makes no sense. – ActionParsnip Aug 03 '15 at 21:48

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 25 '17 at 19:18

This method worked for me 4 out of 4 times on different installations of both Kubuntu 14.04 and 15.04... From the lazarus download site, download the three *.deb files:

fpc-src_2.6.4-*.deb
fpc_2.6.4-*.deb 
lazarus_1.4.2-*.deb

install them in the same order as above:

sudo dkpg -i filename.deb

Ignore the complaints and errors. When all that is done do this one last step - it could be a long one...

sudo apt-get -f install

That last step will install and set up a ton of files needed to satisfy all the dependencies lazarus and a load of others needed for it to run happily.

Lazarus: Missing FPC Sources/Directory

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