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

[John Landmesser]

Am 22.02.23 um 18:01 schrieb Bo Berglund via lazarus:
> 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

*I could install this package on my:*

*Lazarus 2.3.0 (rev main-2_3-2873-g17b66f88c4) FPC 3.2.2 x86_64-linux-gtk2*

*Linux manjaro 6.1.12-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Feb 14
21:59:10 UTC 2023 x86_64 GNU/Linux
*

*
*

*Perhaps start lazarus from terminal to see what its telling ?!*


>
> 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).
>
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