[Lazarus] Unable to install components

[Mattias Gärtner]

Zitat von ik <idokan at gmail.com>:

> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 14:38, Osvaldo Filho <arquivostcf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ubuntu 9.10 64
>> Lazarus svn
>> FPC 2.4.1
>>
>> Problems:
>> - Need permission on /usr/share/lazarus
>> /usr/share/lazarus/components/codetools/codetoolsstrconsts.pas(280)
>> Error: Writing Resource String Table file:
>>
>> /usr/share/lazarus/components/codetools/units/x86_64-linux/codetoolsstrconsts.rst
>>
>> /usr/share/lazarus/components/fpcunit/ide/testcaseopts.pas(41,1)
>> Error: Can't create object file:
>> /usr/share/lazarus/components/fpcunit/ide/lib/x86_64-linux/testcaseopts.o
>>
>> Error: Can't create object file:
>> /usr/share/lazarus/components/printers/lib/x86_64-linux/gtk2/cupsdyn.o
>>
>
> Unless you change permissions to /usr/share/lazarus you will be unable to
> compile lazarus on that location unless you are root .

lazarus checks if the output directory is writable. If it is not  
writable it uses ~/.lazarus/lib/<packagename>/...

Maybe you already changed the permissions, but then compiled as root?  
In that case some files were created as root and can not be  
overwritten as normal user.

Please fix the permissions of /usr/share/lazarus (including sub  
directories). All files there should be owned by root and not writable  
by normal users.

If you use lazarus svn, I recommend to put the svn into your home  
directory (owned by your account). Otherwise your error reports will  
easily confuse people.


>> - Why ?
>> /usr/share/lazarus/ide/lazarus.pp(1,1) Fatal: Can't find unit
>> codetools used by Lazarus
>>
>
> I guess it because it was never compiled to an objct/unit ...


Mattias