How To Install lazarus on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install lazarus on Ubuntu 22.04. lazarus is IDE for Free Pascal - SDK dependency package

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lazarus on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is lazarus

lazarus 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 metapackage pulling in all the packages needed to have a typical Lazarus installation.

There are three methods to install lazarus 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 lazarus 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 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install lazarus

Install lazarus Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install lazarus using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install lazarus

Install lazarus 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 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lazarus

How To Uninstall lazarus on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the lazarus package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove lazarus

Uninstall lazarus And Its Dependencies

To uninstall lazarus and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lazarus

Remove lazarus Configurations and Data

To remove lazarus configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge lazarus

Remove lazarus configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove lazarus configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lazarus

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lazarus package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.