I have been trying Ubuntu 13.10 this weekend and I'm hoping someone can advice on a Lazarus issue I'm experiencing.

This version of Ubuntu come with gdb 7.6.1.
When using Lazarus and debugging the compiled program frequently locks up. Launching Lazarus with sudo or gksudo (in a launcher) fixes the problem. All files modified by Lazarus with sudo are owned by root and I have to keep 'chown -R myusername .' whenever I want to using thse files outside of Lazarus.

So the question is, how can I either downgrade gdb to a version which works nicely with Lazarus and not hose the rest of my system?

Or how can I fix Lazarus to not lockup programs which are run with debugging?
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