[Lazarus] Configuration not quite right

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:40:43 -0600
Leslie Turriff <jlturriff at centurytel.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 	I'm just starting out with Free Pascal and Lazarus, and I need a bit of help.
> 	I've installed them in my OpenSuSE 12.2 system running on x86_64 hardware, 
> using the version in the distribution repository (which I presumed would be 
> properly configured).  Lazarus is v1.0.4 and Free Pascal is "version 2.6.0 
> [2012/10/17] for x86_64".
> 	The first time I opened Lazarus it populated with a predefined sample program 
> (how do I turn that off?).

By default the IDE opens the last project you worked on. On first start
it starts with a new "Application" project.
See Tools / Environment / Files / Open last project at start


>  I made a few cosmetic changes to the source code 
> (blank lines added or removed) to be sure Lazarus saw differences, then 
> pressed the Run button.
> 	The messages window reported 'Project "Project1" successfully built', then an 
> error message window popped up, saying 'No program file "/tmp/project1" 
> found.'

Strange.
Does the file /tmp/project1 exist?
Please right click on the messages window and click on "Save all
messages to a file". Can you post the messages?


> 	I looked through Tools=>Options, looking for a mis-set path, but so far I 
> can't see anything helpful.
> 	Any suggestions?


Mattias