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spir ☣

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
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Ritchie Flick
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spir ☣ wrote 22 lines
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 - 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?

Mattias Gaertner
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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.

Mattias

spir ☣
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On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:11:48 +0200 Ritchie Flick 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:

lazaruside
No command 'lazaruside' found, did you mean:
Command 'lazarus-ide' from package 'lazarus-ide' (universe) lazaruside: command not found
lazarus-ide
... runs ...

Denis
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Mattias Gaertner
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[...] > 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: lazaruside No command 'lazaruside' found, did you mean: Command 'lazarus-ide' from package 'lazarus-ide' (universe) lazaruside: command not found lazarus-ide ... runs ...

Yes, thanks.

For clarification:
It is recommended to use 'startlazarus', which calls 'lazarus-ide' and allows automatic restart after installation of packages.

Mattias

spir ☣
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On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:25:53 +0200 spir ☣ wrote: >[...] > > 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: > > lazaruside > No command 'lazaruside' found, did you mean: > Command 'lazarus-ide' from package 'lazarus-ide' (universe) > lazaruside: command not found > lazarus-ide > ... runs ... Yes, thanks. For clarification: It is recommended to use 'startlazarus', which calls 'lazarus-ide' and allows automatic restart after installation of packages.

Nice, so I don't need to correct my updates of the wiki :-)

Denis
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