[Lazarus] Newcomers with Debian based systems

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Marco van de Voort schrieb:

>> As it looks to me now, I do not only see Lazarus in a downward spiral, 
>> instead the spiral already has reached ground zero :-(
> 
> Strange, while reading this, I thought the same, but then about Ubuntu.
> Since what else is a distribution then packaging and integrating the
> separate raw packages?

The problems reside in the way, how the packages are constructed and fit 
into the package management of the platform. The major problems were 
finding the appropriate packages at all, and then to install the *many* 
related/dependent packages at once. I've added my solution to the 
"Getting Lazarus" (for Ubuntu) wiki page.

The Lazarus specific problems with the currently available kits affect 
the help system, and mostly have been cured in the trunk. There was
- an incompatible placement of the help docs,
- browser was not detected,
- StartPage does not use the user configured help path,
- incomplete docs after rebuild (missing topics)
- FPDoc Editor has problems with the Lazarus-Directory macro,
- and no help available unless all settings are correct.

Another problem: how can a user rebuild Lazarus, when it has been 
installed into /usr where the user has not enough rights.

Some of these topics have been or still are show stoppers, preventing an 
average user (even skilled developer) from testing Lazarus.

DoDi