How To Install fpc on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fpc on Debian 12.
What is fpc
fpc 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.
Extensions have been added to the language, such as function overloading, creation and linking of shared libraries, and Delphi language extensions including classes, exceptions, ANSI strings, and open arrays.
This dependency package always depends on the latest available version of the metapackage pulling in all the FPC packages provided for this architecture. Experienced users may instead prefer to install the particular packages they require by hand.
There are three methods to install fpc on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fpc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fpc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fpc
Install fpc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fpc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fpc
Install fpc 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 fpc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fpc
How To Uninstall fpc on Debian 12
To uninstall only the fpc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fpc
Uninstall fpc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fpc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fpc
Remove fpc Configurations and Data
To remove fpc configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fpc
Remove fpc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fpc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fpc
Dependencies
fpc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fpc package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.