Multiple lazarus found error...
lazarus / 1-Linux

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Mark- · 2018-09-23 01:35

Hello,

Thought I removed everything fpc/lazarus related before installing
1.8.4.
The attached error appears when starting Lazarus.
Searching for the custom executable, no joy.

Where could it be?

Thanks,

Mark

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Handoko · 2018-09-23 02:01

You need to do a total removal before reinstall the Lazarus/FPC:

01. Uninstall lazarus, fpc, fpc-src
02. Delete ~/.lazarus, except: editoroptions, environmentoptions
03. Delete /etc/fppkg (folder)
04. Delete /etc/fp.*
05. Delete /usr/share/fpcsrc (folder)
06. Delete /usr/lib/fpc (folder)
07. Delete /usr/bin/ppc*

Note:
I keep those 2 files in step #2 because I want to keep some setttings
I configured for Lazarus. You can delete them if you want.

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Mark- · 2018-09-23 02:13

Thanks for the response.

I just did a complete reinstall and want to avoid it for now.

Do you know where Lazarus is getting that path from?
It is an actual file, a line in a configuration file, etc?

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lucamar · 2018-09-23 02:24

Just to be certain: ~/.lazarus is a hidden directory (note the
starting dot); are you sure you looked there?

That second (rather first) Lazarus is a rebuilt IDE, probably because
you (un)installed some packages in the old installation.

Quote from: Mark- on September 23, 2018, 04:13:01 amDo you know where
Lazarus is getting that path from?
It is an actual file, a line in a configuration file, etc?

startlazarus looks in that path precisely because it knows that a
"extended" Lazarus  is built there. The problem arises because its
date is actually older than the supposed "original", so it thinks
(quite logically) that you have two different Lazarus versions.

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Mark- · 2018-09-23 02:56

Thanks lucamar, that solved it.

When I read your signature I had a nice chuckle. Recalled sitting at a
desk working on Z80 with CP/M on 8 inch floppy disk.