How To Install fp-units-base on Debian 12

Learn how to install fp-units-base on Debian 12 with this tutorial. fp-units-base is Free Pascal - base units dependency package

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fp-units-base on Debian 12.

What is fp-units-base

fp-units-base 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.

This dependency package always depends on the latest available version of the package containing Free Pascal units for common libraries (some of which are also required by the Free Component Library): NCurses, X11 (Xlib, Xutil), and ZLib.

There are three methods to install fp-units-base on Debian 12. 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-units-base 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-units-base using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fp-units-base

Install fp-units-base Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fp-units-base

Install fp-units-base 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install fp-units-base

How To Uninstall fp-units-base on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove fp-units-base

Uninstall fp-units-base And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fp-units-base and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fp-units-base

Remove fp-units-base Configurations and Data

To remove fp-units-base configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fp-units-base

Remove fp-units-base configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fp-units-base

Dependencies

fp-units-base have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fp-units-base package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.