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. Mattias _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
