How To Install lazarus-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lazarus-doc
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is lazarus-doc
lazarus-doc is:
Lazarus is an IDE to create (graphical and console) applications with Free Pascal, the (L)GPLed Pascal and Object Pascal compiler that runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and more.
Lazarus is the missing part of the puzzle that will allow you to develop programs for all of the above platforms in a Delphi-like environment. The IDE is a RAD tool that includes a form designer.
Unlike Java’s “write once, run anywhere” motto, Lazarus and Free Pascal strive for “write once, compile anywhere”. Since the exact same compiler is available on all of the above platforms you don’t need to do any recoding to produce identical products for different platforms.
In short, Lazarus is a free RAD tool for Free Pascal using its Lazarus Component Library (LCL).
This dependency package always depends on the latest available version of
the package pulling in the documentation for the Lazarus IDE and components.
It can be viewed separately with any HTML browser or accessed from the IDE’s
integrated help (pressing
There are three methods to install lazarus-doc
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 lazarus-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lazarus-doc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lazarus-doc
Install lazarus-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lazarus-doc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lazarus-doc
Install lazarus-doc 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 lazarus-doc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lazarus-doc
How To Uninstall lazarus-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the lazarus-doc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lazarus-doc
Uninstall lazarus-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lazarus-doc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lazarus-doc
Remove lazarus-doc Configurations and Data
To remove lazarus-doc
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lazarus-doc
Remove lazarus-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lazarus-doc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lazarus-doc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lazarus-doc
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.