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If I want to add components to Lazarus in Ubuntu, do I have to run as root, or by using sudo lazarus?
Is there a way of installing components only for your user account, or do
they all have to be part of the main installation?Zitat von Frank Church :
If I want to add components to Lazarus in Ubuntu, do I have to run as root, or by using sudo lazarus?
Normally neither, you run it as normal user like any other program.
Is there a way of installing components only for your user account, or do they all have to be part of the main installation?
1. You only need to install a package if you need components in the palette.
2. Installing a package means creating a new lazarus executable.
3. When the current user has no rights to change the currently running lazarus executable the IDE puts the new executable into ~/.lazarus/bin/.
4. The tool 'startlazarus' automatically starts the right executable.
That means:
If you want to install lazarus on a multi user system, install it as root under /usr/share/lazarus (for example the debian/ubuntu/rpm packages do this).
A user should use startlazarus to start the IDE. (The debian/.../rpm packages create menu entries doing this).
A user can install/uninstall packages. This will create her own new IDE.
Mattias