[Lazarus] Output directories

Mattias Gaertner nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Wed Jun 7 11:54:24 CEST 2023


On Wed, 7 Jun 2023 11:43:16 +0200 (CEST)
Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> There is a problem when installing Lazarus through the package
> manager on Linux, and when you try to install/recompile additional
> packages:
> 
> Error: (lazarus) unable to create package output directory
> "/usr/share/lazarus/2.2.4/components/fpweb/lib/x86_64-linux" of
> package "weblaz 1.0"
> 
> I suspect that the IDE tries to create the output directories of
> packages, but of course it has no write permission in /usr/share.
> 
> Should this not be detected and the output put in
> ~/.local/share/lazarus/... instead ?

Yes, sounds like a regression.

Mattias


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