Lazarus weird after update

pequi · 2024-11-20 11:16:50

Updated Lazarus though synaptic from v 3.0 to v 3.6. Said it was upgrading. When it was done I removed Lazarus 3.0(usually done automatically, but I had to do it manually).
Lazarus 3.6 is working perfectly.

The problem is I keep getting nagged to remove Lazarus:

apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
lazarus-ide lazarus-ide-3.6 lazarus-ide-gtk2-3.6 lazarus-src-3.6 lcl-3.6
lcl-gtk2-3.6 lcl-nogui-3.6 lcl-units-3.6 lcl-utils-3.6
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

"no longer required"? What's this , AI deciding what I do or don't require? LOL
Seriously, how do I get rid of that message? I've tried uninstalling and re-installing, message is the same.
PS I don't want to lose Lazarus configuration files.
TIA

stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn · 2024-11-20 15:33:24

maybe clues here:

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/remove-package-completely

pequi · 2024-11-21 10:11:29

Something wrong with the package

apt remove --purge --autoremove lazarus-ide
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
lazarus-ide* lazarus-ide-3.6* lazarus-ide-gtk2-3.6* lazarus-src-3.6*
lcl-3.6* lcl-gtk2-3.6* lcl-nogui-3.6* lcl-units-3.6* lcl-utils-3.6*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 9 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 710 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

apt-get install lazarus-ide
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
lazarus-ide-2.2 lazarus-ide-gtk2-2.2 lazarus-src-2.2 lcl-2.2 lcl-gtk2-2.2
lcl-nogui-2.2 lcl-units-2.2 lcl-utils-2.2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
lazarus-ide lazarus-ide-2.2 lazarus-ide-gtk2-2.2 lazarus-src-2.2 lcl-2.2
lcl-gtk2-2.2 lcl-nogui-2.2 lcl-units-2.2 lcl-utils-2.2
0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.6 MB/83.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 666 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

I have synaptic configured to install the latest version. Yet it chose an old, obsolete version of Lazarus.
I had to force it to install v 3.6

apt-get install lazarus-ide-3.6
Which did not install the main files. Just non functional icons and menus.

apt-get install lazarus-ide-gtk2-3.6
The following additional packages will be installed:
lazarus-src-3.6 lcl-3.6 lcl-gtk2-3.6 lcl-nogui-3.6 lcl-units-3.6
lcl-utils-3.6
The following NEW packages will be installed:
lazarus-ide-gtk2-3.6 lazarus-src-3.6 lcl-3.6 lcl-gtk2-3.6 lcl-nogui-3.6
lcl-units-3.6 lcl-utils-3.6

Which fixed the problem...
Don't know if I should mark it "solved". Anyone attempting to upgrade Lazarus to the latest version will have the same problem.
Anyways, thanks for the help.
I was uninstalling/re-installing it through synaptic, not the command line. Which gave me the error in the first message.

stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn · 2024-11-21 11:41:19

currently using Daedalus. when i search synaptic using just the "name" matching i get about a dozen search results. one of them is "lazarus-ide-gtk2-2.2 IDE for Free Pascal - GTK+ version" and as you described, it says "latest available version is 2.2.6+dfsg2-2"

there is also a Qt5 version which may explain why your "apt-get install lazarus-ide-3.6" didn't quite get the job done.

thanks for keeping us posted!

rolfie · 2024-11-21 13:52:24

Checked on my Daedalus with backports enabled. Synaptic shows version 2.2 from the standard repo, and 3.0 from backports as available. Nothing about 3.6.

The metapackage lazarus-2.2 re. lazarus-3.0 should install the complete suite.

To get hold of version 3.6 you must have added an external repo. What exactly did you do regarding this "trick" to synaptic?

rolfie · 2024-11-21 15:31:41

Checked under Excalibur: there version 3.6 is available.

You are mixing stable and testing. I would call this idea at least challenging, its no good idea if you do not know exactly what you are doing.

delgado · 2024-11-21 19:59:41

Assuming daedalus with backports:

# apt install  -t daedalus-backports  lazarus-ide

should have done the trick.

pequi · 2024-11-26 10:35:48

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ daedalus main
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ daedalus-updates main
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ daedalus-security main
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ daedalus-backports main
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ daedalus non-free
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ daedalus non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ daedalus contrib

So yes, I use backports. Not marking this as "solved" because package is broken. Synaptic marked Lazarus 3.6 as an "available upgrade", I clicked OK and instead it installed v3.6 and kept v3.0, so effectively I had two versions installed. And when I uninstalled both, and tried to reinstall Lazarus, it installed v2.2.
Under preferences I have "install latest version".

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#1 2024-11-20 11:16:50

Lazarus weird after update

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Re: Lazarus weird after update

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