How To Install fp-ide on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fp-ide on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is fp-ide
fp-ide 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 Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The IDE has an internal compiler.
There are three methods to install fp-ide on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-ide 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-ide using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fp-ide
Install fp-ide Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fp-ide using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fp-ide
Install fp-ide Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install fp-ide using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fp-ide
How To Uninstall fp-ide on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the fp-ide package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fp-ide
Uninstall fp-ide And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fp-ide and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fp-ide
Remove fp-ide Configurations and Data
To remove fp-ide configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fp-ide
Remove fp-ide configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fp-ide configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fp-ide
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fp-ide package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
