How to manually install Free Pascal
 

Greetings,

I am a newbie and completely clueless about manually installing an application. I am running PCLinuxOS KDE 2007. As Free Pascal is not in it's applications list, I will have to load it manually.

I have downloaded the executables and can uncompress them into a directory structure. But I have no idea where to put this structure or how to begin execution of the application once it is installed.

Could you give me the basics I need to be able to do this? I will greatly appreciate it.

Thanks.

It appears you have downloaded the 30mb .tar install. Once you have extracted the .tar you need to go into that folder and run as root.

Adjust these instructions according to where you have extracted the .tar:-

If you extracted the .tar into your /home/username folder you should have a folder named fpc-2.2.2, enter that folder and press f4 to bring up a terminal.

Type su and press enter, input your root password and press enter.

Now type: sh install.sh and the compile/install process will begin. When the install has finished type: exit press enter and close the terminal.

You would be better off downloading and installing fpc-2.2.2-0.i386.rpm rather than trying to compile and install fpc-2.2.2.i386-linux.tar.

The procedure to install the .rpm is similar except you don't extract the files.

Download the fpc-2.2.2-0.i386.rpm to your /home/username folder. Go into your /home/username folder and press f4 to bring up a terminal.

Type: su and press enter, then input your root password then press enter.

Now type: rpm -ivh fpc-2.2.2-0.i386.rpm and press enter.

When the install is finished type: exit press enter and close the terminal.

Installation successful
 

Many thanks for the tips. I downloaded the .rpm file and it installed perfectly.

Now I need to figure out how to configure and run it, but that is another problem. I'll be perusing the Free Pascal documentation.

Thanks again.

Here you go: http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/No...ticle356.shtml just skip past the installation part. Also ignore the fact they are running as root in the example.

Free Pascal up and running
 

I found in the Free Pascal documentation the fp command. This activates the Free Pascal Environment. All configuration, development, and compiling can be done here. This is my preferred environment, so I am up and running.

Thanks for the help.