How To Install fp-compiler on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fp-compiler on Kali Linux.

What is fp-compiler

fp-compiler is:

The Free Pascal Compiler is an Object Pascal compiler supporting both Delphi and Turbo Pascal 7.0 dialects, as well as Mac Pascal dialects. It provides a completely portable RunTime Library (RTL) available on many platforms and compatible with Turbo Pascal, along with a platform-independent class-based Free Component Library (FCL) adding many Delphi extensions and interfacing with many popular open source libraries.

Extensions have been added to the language, such as function overloading, creation and linking of shared libraries, and Delphi language extensions including classes, exceptions, ANSI strings, and open arrays.

This dependency package always depends on the latest available version of the package containing the command line compiler.

There are three methods to install fp-compiler on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install fp-compiler Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install fp-compiler using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fp-compiler

Install fp-compiler Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install fp-compiler using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install fp-compiler

Install fp-compiler Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install fp-compiler using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fp-compiler

How To Uninstall fp-compiler on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the fp-compiler package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fp-compiler

Uninstall fp-compiler And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fp-compiler and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fp-compiler

Remove fp-compiler Configurations and Data

To remove fp-compiler configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fp-compiler

Remove fp-compiler configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove fp-compiler configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fp-compiler

Dependencies

fp-compiler have the following dependencies:

• fp-compiler-3.2.0

References

• fp-compiler website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fp-compiler package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.