How To Install fp-units-gtk2 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fp-units-gtk2 on Debian 9.
What is fp-units-gtk2
fp-units-gtk2 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 and examples to create programs with GTK+ 2.x.
There are three methods to install fp-units-gtk2 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-gtk2 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-gtk2 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fp-units-gtk2
Install fp-units-gtk2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fp-units-gtk2 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fp-units-gtk2
Install fp-units-gtk2 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-gtk2 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fp-units-gtk2
How To Uninstall fp-units-gtk2 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the fp-units-gtk2 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fp-units-gtk2
Uninstall fp-units-gtk2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fp-units-gtk2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fp-units-gtk2
Remove fp-units-gtk2 Configurations and Data
To remove fp-units-gtk2 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fp-units-gtk2
Remove fp-units-gtk2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fp-units-gtk2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fp-units-gtk2
Dependencies
fp-units-gtk2 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fp-units-gtk2 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.