[Lazarus] Files not found when rebuilding the IDE

[hdv@gmail]

Hi,

After a couple of years away I am trying to pick up Lazarus again. Have
to admit I seem to have lost a lot of the things I was at least somewhat
knowledgeable in. Ah, well, I keep on trying...

One of those things has to do with rebuilding the IDe after adding
components. There's two things I can't seem to grasp.

The first has to do with lpk files. I'd like to add AnchorDocking, but
when I look in /usr/lib/lazarus/1.2.4/components/anchordocking/design I
do not see a lpk file. Am I missing something? Or is my version of
Lazarus not complete? I am using lazarus as installed by the package
manger on a current Debian testing system.

The other thing pops up when I want to rebuild the IDE. Building project
is no problem (well, that is for the simple projects I tried 'til now).
I get an error that the file staticpackages.inc can not be found. It
does however exist in my ~/.lazarus directory and has proper rights. So
I am thinking paths. But what path do I need to configure in the options
dialog?

I found some article on the problem with Linux systems and the
impossibility of writing outside of your own home directory and thought
it might have to do something with that. So I tried "startlazarus', but
that does not seem to change anything (as far as I can see). The error
message about still pops up.

Can someone please enlighten me? I'd appreciate it very much. I did try
the site and the wiki, but maybe my search foo is lacking or I might be
too dense, because I did not find pointers there that helped me solve this.

Thanks!

Grx HdV