On Apr 16, 2010, at 6:40 PM, spir ☣ wrote: > Hello, > > Newcomer here. > Seems stupid, but I had a hard time in simply starting Lazarus -- on Ubuntu. > When I typed "lazarus", I got an error message about a lazarus program from > another package. Finally thought at the "Application" menu, which I else > never use. Then, copying the launcher to the desktop I could see its > properties, mainly that the command is "startlazarus". > So, added the following note to the Lazarus tutorial and the installation > page, on the wiki: > http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Tutorial#Getting_Started_-_Your_first_Lazarus_Program.21 > http://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus#Ubuntu_.2F_Debian > > Note: on Linux Ubuntu at least, the command to start Lazarus from a console > is "startlazarus". Else, if you installed it from a Debian package, you > should have a Lazarus menu entry under Application/Programming. > (Issue: there is an ambiguity with a program also called "lazarus" from a > "tct" package available for Ubuntu). > > Hope this helps new newcomers ;-) > > Denis > ________________________________ > > vit esse estrany ☣ > > spir.wikidot.com > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
I never had any problems with lazarus on my ubuntu installation, but maybe there are some packaging problems on the newer ones?_______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
