[Lazarus] Screwed up Lazarus installation - how to make clean and start over?

Bo Berglund bo.berglund at gmail.com
Wed Feb 22 18:01:13 CET 2023


On Wed, 22 Feb 2023 10:43:35 +0100, Bo Berglund via lazarus
<lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

>Lacking any advice here I started over by removing the old Lazarus directory and
>the pcp dir and then build from start with a new set of source files in a fresh
>2.2.4 subdir...
>
>All was Ok until again the OLPM packages were installed when the new Lazarus
>also failed to start. It seems like at least one of the packages I use from OLPM
>will hose Lazarus!
>
>So now I will repeat the effort but this time I will install one package after
>another using OLPM and rebuild Lazarus IDE after each. This way I would be able
>to pinpoint the one that causes the problem.

So now I have found a package in OnLinePackageManager that will hose Lazarus if
installed:
 BGRABitmap

Up until installing that I was fine, but now Lazarus won't start....

The Initial image is shown for 3 seconds and then disappears.
Then nothing...

What can I do to get into Lazarus and remove the BGRABitmap?

Or is there somewhere a file or such I can edit and then rebuild the IDE from
the command line?

This is on Linux (Raspberry Pi  OS).


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden



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