How To Install fp-utils on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fp-utils
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is fp-utils
fp-utils 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 some handy utilities for use with the Free Pascal Compiler:
- data2inc convert binary/text data to include files;
- fpcmake create Makefile from Makefile.fpc;
- h2pas convert .h files to Pascal units;
- plex/pyacc Pascal Lex and Yacc implementations;
- ppdep create a dependency file for use with Makefiles;
- ppudump dump the information stored in a .ppu (unit) file;
- ppufiles show needed files for units;
- ppumove place multiple units in a shared library;
- ptop beautify source.
There are three methods to install fp-utils
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-utils 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-utils
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fp-utils
Install fp-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fp-utils
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fp-utils
Install fp-utils 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-utils
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fp-utils
How To Uninstall fp-utils on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the fp-utils
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fp-utils
Uninstall fp-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fp-utils
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fp-utils
Remove fp-utils Configurations and Data
To remove fp-utils
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fp-utils
Remove fp-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fp-utils
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fp-utils
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fp-utils
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.