How To Install fp-units-math on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fp-units-math on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is fp-units-math
fp-units-math 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 math interfacing units for:
- gmp (the GNU Multiple Precision arithmetic library);
- numlib (numerical computing);
- proj4 (cartographic projections);
- symbolic (symbolic computing).
There are three methods to install fp-units-math 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-units-math 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-math using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fp-units-math
Install fp-units-math Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fp-units-math using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fp-units-math
Install fp-units-math 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-units-math using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fp-units-math
How To Uninstall fp-units-math on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the fp-units-math package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fp-units-math
Uninstall fp-units-math And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fp-units-math and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fp-units-math
Remove fp-units-math Configurations and Data
To remove fp-units-math configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fp-units-math
Remove fp-units-math configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fp-units-math configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fp-units-math
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fp-units-math package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
