[fpc-pascal] "start" Lazarus

[Ritchie Flick]

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 ;-)
> 
> Denis
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I never had any problems with lazarus on my ubuntu installation, but maybe there are some packaging problems on the newer ones?