How To Install fp-units-gfx on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install fp-units-gfx on Kali Linux. fp-units-gfx is Free Pascal - graphics-library units dependency package

Introduction

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

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 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-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 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-units-gfx using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fp-units-gfx

How To Uninstall fp-units-gfx on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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 Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.