lazarus 0.9.30.0 on ubuntu10.04

[HappyLarry]

Aha! I didn't know I was using a Qt version of Lazarus!  I downloaded it from a link in the Lazarus wiki to Sourceforge - it is called lazarus-0.9.30-i386.deb.tar. (71MB). All I did was create a new folder, put it in,  double-click on it to extract the ,debs and run dpkg -i  * .  There are various packages in the folder such as
lazarus-ide-gtk2-0.9.30_0.9.30-0_all
and
lazarus-ide-qt4-0.9.30_0.9.30-0_all
but I thought you just installed everything. I'm sure that there are posts on this forum saying to do that.
I use Ubuntu Lucid Lynx with a Gnome interface. Where should I get the Lazarus download from?
Thanks for your help.

[Blaazen]

It seems you already have it. I think "lazarus-ide-gtk2-0.9.30_0.9.30-0_all" is what you need.

Try

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dpkg -i lazarus-ide-gtk2-0.9.30_0.9.30-0_all.deb and you will see.

[HappyLarry]

I tried it but....

sudo dpkg -i lazarus-ide-gtk2-0.9.30_0.9.30-0_all.deb
dpkg: error processing lazarus-ide-gtk2-0.9.30_0.9.30-0_all.deb (--install):
 cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
 lazarus-ide-gtk2-0.9.30_0.9.30-0_all.deb

Sorry! This is my mistake. I  misread the original file. It is
lazarus-ide-gtk2-0.9.30_0.9.30-0_i386.deb

Therefore I also tried ...

sudo dpkg -i lazarus-ide-gtk2-0.9.30_0.9.30-0_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 197050 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace lazarus-ide-gtk2-0.9.30 0.9.30-0 (using lazarus-ide-gtk2-0.9.30_0.9.30-0_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement lazarus-ide-gtk2-0.9.30 ...
Setting up lazarus-ide-gtk2-0.9.30 (0.9.30-0) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/lazarus/0.9.30/lazarus-gtk2 to provide /usr/lib/lazarus/0.9.30/lazarus (lazarus-0.9.30) in auto mode.

I don't understand this. Should I try Lazarus now?

[Blaazen]

Sorry for confusion in my previous post, it was name of folder and not a filename.

This output:

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sudo dpkg -i lazarus-ide-gtk2-0.9.30_0.9.30-0_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 197050 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace lazarus-ide-gtk2-0.9.30 0.9.30-0 (using lazarus-ide-gtk2-0.9.30_0.9.30-0_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement lazarus-ide-gtk2-0.9.30 ...
Setting up lazarus-ide-gtk2-0.9.30 (0.9.30-0) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/lazarus/0.9.30/lazarus-gtk2 to provide /usr/lib/lazarus/0.9.30/lazarus (lazarus-0.9.30) in auto mode.
seems that Laz. is installed.

[HappyLarry]

I created a simple application with 1 button which changed the caption of a label. I got an error when I clicked the button.

Error message = Can't find unit contnrs used by Masks

This may be an unrelated error, although I have never seen one like it before.
Is there any way of testing whether Lazarus is correctly installed?

[Blaazen]

I am not sure what's wrong. Try to follow FAQ, section "Can't find unit XXX":
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Faq#When_compiling_lazarus_the_compiler_can_not_find_a_unit._e.g.:_gtkint.pp.2817.2C16.29_Fatal:_Can.27t_find_unit_GLIB

[HappyLarry]

This doesn't seem right. There must be an easier way.  Is it easier to use the Lazarus Ubuntu repository to download Lazarus 0.9.30?

[GeoffreyBernardo]

I am also on Ubuntu 10.04 because it is the LTS and because my computer is old.

I uninstalled the old FPC and old Lazarus, then installed new FPC from debian packages on Lazarus Sourceforge, then installed all the 0.9.30 lcl packages as well as 0.9.30 lazarus-doc and lazarus-src packages successfully.

When I tried to install lazarus-ide-gtk2-0.9.30, GDebi said it depends on lazarus-ide-0.9.30. When I tried to install lazarus-ide-0.9.30, it said it depends on lazarus-ide-gtk-0.9.30. But lazarus-ide-gtk-0.9.30 is not in the download.

[HappyLarry]

Hi
I eventually got Lazarus 0.9.30 working on Lucid. I made a lot of mistakes on the way as you can read on the thread -
http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,14672.0.html.

I'm not sure I ever had exactly the problem you have but it might help.