I'd downloaded fpc and Lazarus (the sort-of Delphi clone using fpc) from the SourceForge website, all was installed and working just fine.
Then I did an upgrade, and one of the updates to be installed was fpc 2.6.0-6.
The problem with this is that the upgrade (using apt-get) produced a "broken pipe" error with almost every package, only the names differed. I can paste the whole lot if needed, but an example is :-
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Unpacking fp-units-rtl-2.6.0 (from .../fp-units-rtl-2.6.0_2.6.0-6_amd64.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/fp-units-rtl-2.6.0_2.6.0-6_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/fpc/2.6.0/units/x86_64-linux/rtl/objpas.o', which is also in package fpc 2.6.0 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
</paste> and I now appear to be stuck in a loop.If I try to do anything with apt-get, I get an error that there are broken dependencies. Trying an apt-get -f install tries to install these same packages, with, of course, the same error.
I've tried using dpkg to remove lazarus and fpc. Won't do it, broken dependencies.
I've tried using dpkg to reinstall the SourceForge version of the compiler. That at least works, warning me that I'm doing a downgrade, so I still have a working lazarus installation, but it doesn't correct the dependencies problem.
So, how do I get out of this mess? I tried e-mailing the packager for fpc pointing out that there were problems, at least for my system (64-bit AMD packages) but there's been no reply, not even an acknowledgement.
Thanks, Brian.