 Installing Ubuntu 18.04.1 (in French)
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Installing Ubuntu 18.04.1, aditions and adjustements (in French)
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Updating Free Pascal and Lazarus with fpcupdeluxe on Ubuntu 17.10
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Back in February, I updated an installation of the Free Pascal compiler and the Lazarus IDE using with the codebot
script from getlazarus running on Ubuntu
17.10. In August, I installed the same programming environment
but this time with the FPCUPdeluxe utility
after upgrading Ubuntu to version 18.04. And
yesterday, it is the most recent versions of Free Pascal and Lazarus
that I added to a laptop whose operating system is Mint 19. As the later is almost identical to Ubuntu 18.04, the procedure described below is the
same.
On the first attempt at using FPCUPdeluxe I made an error that necessitated a complete reinstallation of the freshly installed Ubuntu 18.04 operating system. If you want to see what not to do, you can read the initial version of this post.
Table of Content
Obtaining PFCUPdeluxe
Free Pascal and the Lazarus IDE are not available in the Ubuntu Software application, but version 3.0.4 of the
compiler and version 1.8.2 of the IDE can be installed with
synaptic (or apt-get). However, these are not
the most recent versions. Currently, version 3.3.1 of the compiler and
2.1.0 of the IDE are available. Traditionally, the latest version of
some open software not available from the software store is installed
by compiling the source code. This is somewhat more complicted here,
because much of what we want is written in Free
Pascal.
I have installed everything from the source in the past, and it was
not easy. I prefer to rely on a utility like FPCUPdeluxe. Its executable is obtained from the repository
https://github.com/newpascal/fpcupdeluxe/releases.
There are several versions, you must make sure to get the latest that
is compatible with the operating system. Consequently, I downloaded
version v1.6.2e of fpcupdeluxe-x86_64-linux yesterday.
The downloaded binary file is not marked as executable. This can
easily be done by right-clicking on the utility name in Files to display its Properties. The check the
option the Allow executing file as program option in the
Permissions tab. It can also be done with the command
chmod in a terminal.
Requirements
When I pressed the Trunk button in the FPCUPdeluxe utility to get the latest versions of the compiler and IDE, the following error message was displayed.
Following the suggestion, I installed all the libraries plus an
additional one needed for the bgrabitmap package that
I want to include in the IDE.
I also added the three main version control programs even if the utility said it only needed Subversion.
As far as Make is concerned, I verified that it was
missing, and that installing build-essential was required.
On the other hand, the principal tools in Binutils,
ld and as, as well as the GNU Project Debugger.
The web page of the repository contains details about the utilitity's prequisites.
Installer Free Pascal et Lazarus
After installing the requirements, all that needed to be done was to click on the Trunk button and to wait as the utility suggest, because it takes a considerable amount of time to compile the compiler Free Pascal and the Lazarus IDE. Luckily, everything worked correctly.
When first started, the Lazarus IDE is displayed in classic fashion: with numerous independant windows.
I do not like dealing with a phletora of windows, so I added the
anchordocking package with fpcupdeluxe.
The image shown below shows the appearance of the IDE after installing the component and modifying a few options. The form editor is behind the code editor. The tabs at the bottom of the editors are used to select one of them.
In a similar fashion, I installed other packages such as
bgrabitmap, dcpcrypt, Synapse et
virtualtreeview.