Newbie, trying to compile an example app

[AmatCoder]

However, some problems/questions still remain:
- the developers should put more work in making this IDE easyer to setup for newbies
- why don't the deb packages in the Debian repository work? If they don't, why does anyone care to maintain them? Debian should keep only packages that work. I guess I'm not the only one in the world that checked Lazarus out and saw it didn't work.

Some time ago, I used deb packages without problems...But you need to keep in mind the filesystem write-permissions:

1) Lazarus and components are installed in /usr/lib/ so you can not rebuild or compile them directly. (You could do it as superuser, but it's NOT recommended)

2) Same thing with examples provided. You can copy them to your home directory if you want compile them.

Regards.

[sagerian]

Yes, I undestand now.
It's better to download the necesary packages and use the latest sources available in subversion to compile Lazarus in the home directory.
Lazarus is a nice IDE once you get it started.

Is there any way I could integrate or dock all the IDE's windows into one window in this last version?

[Leledumbo]

Is there any way I could integrate or dock all the IDE's windows into one window in this last version?

If you have svn version, see this.

[ivan17]

However, some problems/questions still remain:
- the developers should put more work in making this IDE easyer to setup for newbies

even if you are on debian or a derivate (ubuntu) you can still install from rpms which works like a charm.

And I installed these files with "dpkg -i ./*.*". No errors.

obviously you're not bound to graphical software manager so you can type
rpm -i fpc-2.4.2-20101121.i386.rpm
rpm -i fpc-src-2.4.2-20101121.i386.rpm
rpm -i lazarus-0.9.29.28377-20101121.i386.rpm