First of all, sry for my English.

Hardver: ASUS EEE 901, OS: UNR Ubuntu 8.10

I have tried to install several versions of Lazarus via Synaptic and SourceFourge, nameily 9.22, 9.24 and 9.26. The installation succeeded all the time but the IDE is unusable: the mainIDE endlessly reloads itself, making the left side of the panel vibrate: the buttons are unclikable here, however when I move the cursor above them, the hint appers sometimes. The pages appear and usually (but not always) clickable, but they are all empty. Since the menus are unopenable too, the rebuild of the IDE won't work. The IDE is not closeable with hotkeys or with the close button, and I can't switch to any other program or window after I launched Lazarus, forcing me to restart the machine after each try.

I have absolutely no idea about what could be the trigger of this event, so I decided to ask your help to solve it.

I have to mention that I am new to Linux, I was a Windows user recently.

Regards,
Istvan Pecsi

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I thnk the EEE pc is the thing that limits you the most here... They have very small HD space and memory wise they might struggle to run Lazarus (however I thought I saw someone post screenshots with it).

Reenen Laurie wrote

I thnk the EEE pc is the thing that limits you the most here... They have very small HD space and memory wise they might struggle to run Lazarus (however I thought I saw someone post screenshots with it).

Lazarus uses 22MB resident memory when just started here. Some additional memory might be allocated in the X server.

If you can run e.g. firefox then memory is certainly not a problem ;)

Such a system has 1GB of memory? Should be more than enough? Did you try loading lazarus as only app?

Micha

Try rebuilding your IDE with Gtk 2. Navigate the where Lazarus was installed and type:

sudo make clean all LCL_PLATFORM=gtk2

The directory should be called /usr/share/lazarus or something similar

Did you try loading lazarus as only app?

Yeah, as you wrote, the EEE 901 has 1 GB of memory and I think that should be more than enough.Of course I did that but the problem remained.

I have got a nice error message:

Writing Resource String Table file: cgimodules.rst Fatal: Can't find unit LazarusPackageIntf used by cgiLaz Fatal: Compilation aborted
make[2]: *** [cgilaz.ppu] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/lib/lazarus/components/cgi' make[1]: *** [cgi_all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/lib/lazarus/components' make: *** [components] Error 2

Regards,
Istvan Pecsi

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Try again with:

sudo make clean all LCL_PLATFORM=gtk2 OPT="-va"

This should say exactly why compilation fails

PS: Don't answer only to me, but to the whole list

The error message remains. The Windows version of Lazarus under Wine seems to be useable, so I will use that. Thx for the help.