Installing Applications using Arch Linux on the Pi
- FPC is Free Pascal;
- Geany is an editor that will syntax-highlight your Pascal code and provide key-presses for compiling and executing your programs;
- Midori is a browser (to view this website!);
- Leafpad is a handy simple editor;
- Scrot is a screenshot utility
- Open JDK allows you to run Java bytecode from, for example, Oxygene for Java programs compiled on a PC;
- we finish by installing a few SDL libraries.
Most installations are quick. The -Syu switch forces a system update, which can be time-consuming. We were able to use Free Pascal independently and via Geany last month. Current installations (early March 2013) apparently work, giving binaries in the expected locations, but we obtain the error: "ppcarm can't be executed" on attempted use of fpc. The direct command /usr/lib/fpc/2.6.2/ppcarm test.pas produced an error message stating that ppcarm was unable to open test.pas. (The equivalent command on our Debian system, /usr/lib/fpc/2.6.0/ppcarm test.pas, produced a working executable file).
We found this Raspberry Pi page to be most useful.
Follow the steps on the next page to start using the Geany editor with the Free Pascal compiler.