How To Install lazarus-ide on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lazarus-ide
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is lazarus-ide
lazarus-ide 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 pulls in the latest available version of one of the flavors of the Lazarus IDE.
There are three methods to install lazarus-ide
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 lazarus-ide 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-ide
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lazarus-ide
Install lazarus-ide Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lazarus-ide
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lazarus-ide
Install lazarus-ide 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-ide
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lazarus-ide
How To Uninstall lazarus-ide on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the lazarus-ide
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lazarus-ide
Uninstall lazarus-ide And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lazarus-ide
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lazarus-ide
Remove lazarus-ide Configurations and Data
To remove lazarus-ide
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lazarus-ide
Remove lazarus-ide configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lazarus-ide
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lazarus-ide
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lazarus-ide
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.