Lazarus Wiped Out During OpenCV Upgrade
lazarus / 1-Linux

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del · 2018-08-21 23:39

Hey gang - I just ran a script to upgrade OpenCV to ver. 3.4 and
noticed "fpc" mentioned a few times on the terminal during this
process. Now Lazarus is gone from my start menu (linux mint) and seems
to be gone, in general, from the computer. Oh well - I can easily
reinstall it from the previously downloaded deb files (ver. 18.0). But
maybe I'll go with the latest. Lazarus is my favorite IDE !!

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del · 2018-08-22 13:14

Update - all is well. I had to remove an existing installation of fp
using Synaptic Package Manager. I kept getting errors about an
existing fp installation. However once that was done the deb files
from Source Forge did a clean install of Lazarus 1.8.4. I'm happy.
Just wanted to share. Have a nice day.

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Handoko · 2018-08-31 18:41

Maybe you should do version locking to prevent this problem to happen
again in the future.

I use Synaptic to do version locking, this is how I do it (step
#41..#43):
http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,38828.msg265293.ht
ml#msg265293
Note:
I now version lock fpc only, so far no any issue.

You can also do version using apt-mark hold, suggested by @vangli:
https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,41524.msg295926.h
tml#msg295926