[Lazarus] How to move installed component package sources?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 18 Sep 2020, Bo Berglund via lazarus wrote:

> I have installed a custom component package on the palette of Lazarus.
> Now I realize that I did it the wrong way since the package sources
> are inside a project tree of many apps and other things.
>
> I want to have the sources moved to my Lazarus installation into the
> config dir below lazarus like for instance packages retrieved from
> OLPM are.
>
> Is there a simpler way to redirect Lazarus for the package location or
> do I have to this:
> - Uninstall the component package
> - Rebuild Lazarus without the package
> - Install the package based on sources in the right place
> - Rebuild Lazarus again to include the package
>
> It takes a really long time to build Lazarus on these machines so I'd
> rather not do that if at all possible...
> I have Lazarus on several machines (Windows, Linux)...

AFAIK:

Normally you can just open the package file in its new location.
Next time when the IDE needs to be recompiled it will find the package.

Michael.