[Akira1364]

Don't download the bundled Free Pascal and Lazarus distributions from this site, they're very outdated. Just get the normal releases from the actual Free Pascal and Lazarus sites which are linked at the top of the page. Lazarus comes with Free Pascal bundled by default anyways, so you don't need to grab the compiler separately if using Lazarus.

[user3939382]

I downloaded Lazarus from its release page on Github and after installing it didn’t work, saying it needed extra binaries that it couldn’t find. Now I have to see what it’s talking about, what to install, etc. Kind of a hassle.

[Akira1364]

Which Github page do you mean? I wasn't aware they'd started putting properly packaged binary releases on Github.

[Zuider]

fpcupdeluxe will automate the process of installing a working Lazarus/FPC environment. You can just click through, as the defaults are fine.

https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/fpcupdeluxe

[pkphilip]

You will need to install Free Pascal (fpc) separately