How To Install fp-units-multimedia on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fp-units-multimedia on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is fp-units-multimedia
fp-units-multimedia 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 multimedia units: a52, dts, mad, modplug, oggvorbis, openal, and vlc.
There are three methods to install fp-units-multimedia 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-multimedia 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-multimedia using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fp-units-multimedia
Install fp-units-multimedia Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fp-units-multimedia using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fp-units-multimedia
Install fp-units-multimedia 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-multimedia using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fp-units-multimedia
How To Uninstall fp-units-multimedia on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the fp-units-multimedia package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fp-units-multimedia
Uninstall fp-units-multimedia And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fp-units-multimedia 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-multimedia
Remove fp-units-multimedia Configurations and Data
To remove fp-units-multimedia configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fp-units-multimedia
Remove fp-units-multimedia configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fp-units-multimedia configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fp-units-multimedia
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fp-units-multimedia package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
