How To Install lcl-units on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lcl-units
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is lcl-units
lcl-units 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 containing common components.
There are three methods to install lcl-units
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install lcl-units Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lcl-units
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lcl-units
Install lcl-units Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lcl-units
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lcl-units
Install lcl-units 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 lcl-units
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lcl-units
How To Uninstall lcl-units on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the lcl-units
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lcl-units
Uninstall lcl-units And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lcl-units
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lcl-units
Remove lcl-units Configurations and Data
To remove lcl-units
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lcl-units
Remove lcl-units configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lcl-units
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lcl-units
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lcl-units
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.