Sadly, installation on non-Windows platforms is still it's weak point. Even more so is that darn debugger it uses. Which I believe is where most of the problems with Lazarus lies currently.

Do get your setup going for end of December though, as the PGD Challenge is going to start sometime shortly after Christmas. This one will span about a month. (4 weeks)

Post Mortems are great! Maybe you can submit one to issue 4 of Pascal Gamer Magazine as well? With more pictures and screenshots of it's development of course.