I'm a Lazarus newbie, this is the first time I'm trying to upgrade it. I've looked without luck around the internet including this forum for a good procedure to use when upgrading from a recent Lazarus. I want to replace Laz 4.0 by Laz 4.2 on a Debian-based MX Linux system. Thanks for any help with this.
My confusion arises because I've seen advice to get rid of the old Laz installation before installing the new one - but the advice I've seen has been short on specifics.
I'm trying to find out what needs to be removed, if anything. And if it's straightforward to use the distro package manager to do this, that would be nice to know.If directories need to be archived or deleted, what are those? I do plan to archive ~/.lazarus just in case, and my project directories.Ditto for individual files.Currently installed is Lazarus 4.0 on July 23 after downloading the .deb packages at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20Linux%20arm64%20DEB/Lazarus%204.0/I've downloaded the 4.2 .deb packages from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20Linux%20arm64%20DEB/Lazarus%204.2/Oops, I see that the fpc packages are new, too, so will need to install.
It appears that the fpc packages might be the same for Laz 4.2 as for 4.0, so maybe they do not need to be reinstalled?I'm new to Lazarus but relatively good w/Linux. I can probably handle any command line or other procedure - just need to find out what the procedure is.
Running a June, 2025, Mx Linux install. uname -a yields
Linux nyx 6.1.0-37-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.140-1 (2025-05-22) x86_64 GNU/Linux
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