[Lazarus] How to uninstall a package?

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 06/03/2008, Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:
>
>  > The problem is that I have two packages that have the same unit name,
>  > and every time I recompile Lazarus, it complains and I have to click
>  > 'Ignore All'.  See attached screenshot of the error.
>
> This message has nothing to do with 'Available Packages'.

OK, I found the packagefiles.xml file which contains an extensive list
of available packages. I deleted it from there, including some old
versions of existing packages which don't exist anymore.

I rebuilt Lazarus and still got the error. :-)  The duplicate .ppu
file will still lying around. I now see what you meant. So deleted all
tiOPF's *.ppu and *.o and rebuilt Lazarus again. This time everything
went through fine - no errors popped up.

I still think it would be handy to unregister a package with Lazarus.
eg: A popup menu on the Available Packages list that says 'unregister'
and it removes it from the packagfiles.xml file.  Maybe even a
'cleanup' option which will look if the package still exists on the
hard drive and if not, remove it from the packagefiles.xml file.

I deleted some old and non-existing packages from my .xml file and the
size went from 17k down to 7k. A lot of junk entries are now removed.

Regards,
  - Graeme -


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