How To Install fp-units-gfx on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fp-units-gfx on Debian 9.
What is fp-units-gfx
fp-units-gfx 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 with bindings for cairo, forms, ggi, graph, libgd, libpng, opengl, and svgalib.
SVGALib is no longer packaged by Debian and should be installed manually by users who want to link against it.
There are three methods to install fp-units-gfx on Debian 9. 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-gfx 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-gfx using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fp-units-gfx
Install fp-units-gfx Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fp-units-gfx using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fp-units-gfx
Install fp-units-gfx 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-gfx using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fp-units-gfx
How To Uninstall fp-units-gfx on Debian 9
To uninstall only the fp-units-gfx package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fp-units-gfx
Uninstall fp-units-gfx And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fp-units-gfx and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fp-units-gfx
Remove fp-units-gfx Configurations and Data
To remove fp-units-gfx configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fp-units-gfx
Remove fp-units-gfx configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fp-units-gfx configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fp-units-gfx
Dependencies
fp-units-gfx have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fp-units-gfx package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.