You most like used the online package manager then, what this does is download the sources and recompile the IDE so you did recompile the IDE. The 2 minute reco

You most like used the online package manager then, what this does is download the sources and recompile the IDE so you did recompile the IDE. The 2 minute recompilation makes sense considering it is RPi. Note that i did not write that Lazarus is bad for Raspberry Pi (on the contrary it is among the few actual IDEs you'll be able to use with the RPi considering how weak it is and how overbloated pretty much every other IDE with a similar overall featureset is), i wrote that judging Lazarus based on how it works with Raspberry Pi is not a good idea because it is a niche case, so you will find roadblocks that wont exist in other more mainstream configurations. It is simple reality that not as many Lazarus developers pay attention to ARM-based Linux desktop environments and Raspberry Pi as they do for x86-based Linux desktop environments and x86-based Windows. For most things it works because FPC and Lazarus are good at being cross platform and the libraries are largely the same between x86 and ARM Linux, but things aren't equal. (of course you can use it to judge how Lazarus works with Raspberry Pi specifically, but this experience isn't something that can be extended to everything Lazarus supports)