On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:46:50 +0200 Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaert...@netcologne.de> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:11:48 +0200 > Ritchie Flick <xenp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > 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 ;-) > > > > > > I never had any problems with lazarus on my ubuntu installation, but maybe > > there are some packaging problems on the newer ones? > > No. > > It is true that there is an older package tct with a binary > 'lazarus' (to revive partitions). > So the lazarus package had to name the IDE 'lazaruside' instead. Actually seems to be "lazarus-ide" on Ubuntu: s...@o:~$ lazaruside No command 'lazaruside' found, did you mean: Command 'lazarus-ide' from package 'lazarus-ide' (universe) lazaruside: command not found s...@o:~$ lazarus-ide ... runs ... Denis ________________________________ vit esse estrany ☣ spir.wikidot.com _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
