[Lazarus] Trying to work around "Illegal character in format string"

[Juha Manninen]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Alan Corey <alan01346 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Should I have maybe removed ~/.lazarus?

The local config is backwards compatible and updated automatically but
soemtimes after experimenting a lot it can become corrupt. Then you
can delete it.

> I still can't get the chmhelp package to install, even after
> upgrading, rebuilding the IDE, restarting.  It's mentioned in
> ~/.lazarus/idemake.cfg and ~/.lazarus/staticpackages.inc but it still
> shows with a green +.

You installed to a write protected dir /usr/local/share/lazarus, right?
When you rebuild the IDE as normal user, the new binary goes to your
home dir under ~/.lazarus.
Instead of "lazarus" you should run "startlazarus". It checks where
the latest binary is and starts it for you.
I am sure it was documented somewhere ...

Juha