TRichMemo install shows "Partial"

[vinntec]

I have a complex program on Windows Lazarus which works absolutely fine. It includes a pair of TRichMemo controls which I used after getting the Online Package Manager to install "RichMemo".

With the death of Windows 10, I am slowly migrating everything from my small Windows 11 to a Zorin OS (Linux) system. So I installed Lazarus from DEB files and everything looked fine (following instructions for Linux Mint). But when I try and install RichMemo, this appears to work fine with no errors but the OPM shows "Partially" against the install. I have tried completely removing Lazarus/FPC, rebooting, then reinstalling and redoing the package management, but same result.

I can't find anything which explains what "partially" means and what I need to do to complete the installation. Can anyone help because it sounds like something is missing, but I can't see what it is?

I forgot to mention, both are Lazarus 4.4

[rvk]

You can press the little + before RichMemo and see what is actually installed and what is not.

[vinntec]

When I did this, richmemo_design showed as downloaded. I tried to install it by itself but this only changed status to "Extracted" (see screenshot). All pre-reqs for it are installed.

Oh my head!

[rvk]

Did you recompile the IDE?

Does it show the A component for RichMemo?

[vinntec]

If you mean, does RichMemo show as one of the options on the menu, then the answer is no. I think the only thing to do is to reinstall Linux and go through the install process again. The system is only a few days old and the steps I have taken are documented so should take a few hours.

[rvk]

If you mean, does RichMemo show as one of the options on the menu, then the answer is no.

I thought so. The component itself is in richmemo_design which isn't installed but only extracted. You need to install that one.
I don't know why it didn't install for you.

[wp]

I just installed RichMemo from OPM, and it worked fine: Check the item "RichMemo" (which will also check the two sub-items "richmemopackage.lpk" and "richmemo_design.lpk" which you see when you expand the "RichMemo" node); click "Install", confirm to rebuild the IDE, and wait until the IDE restarts.

If your first installation did not work out for you, simply repeat the installation. It is not harmful to install a package over a partially  (or even completely) installed one.

[vinntec]

Well... I reinstalled Zorin OS then followed my instructions on how to setup Lazarus again - and this time RichMemo installs no problem and my program compiles and runs (after some minor platform-related  changes).

I suspect what messed things up first time around is that I initially installed Lazarus using apt, but this installed Lazarus 3.0! When I realised this, I carefully followed the instructions to remove Lazarus completely and reboot then did the install from DEB files. But it looks like something from the old version was still lurking somewhere and messing Lazarus up even if I uninstalled and reinstalled Lazarus.

So all good now, sorry to be a nuisance.

[vinntec]

Just to close this item, here is a screenshot of my program working on Linux.