How To Install libghc-esqueleto-dev on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libghc-esqueleto-dev on Ubuntu.

What is `libghc-esqueleto-dev`

libghc-esqueleto-dev is:

esqueleto is a bare bones, type-safe EDSL for SQL queries that works with unmodified persistent SQL backends. Its language closely resembles SQL, so you don’t have to learn new concepts, just new syntax, and it’s fairly easy to predict the generated SQL and optimize it for your backend. Most kinds of errors committed when writing SQL are caught as compile-time errors—although it is possible to write type-checked esqueleto queries that fail at runtime.

This package provides a library for the Haskell programming language. See http://www.haskell.org/ for more information on Haskell.

There are three methods to install libghc-esqueleto-dev on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libghc-esqueleto-dev Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libghc-esqueleto-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libghc-esqueleto-dev

Install libghc-esqueleto-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libghc-esqueleto-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libghc-esqueleto-dev

Install libghc-esqueleto-dev 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 libghc-esqueleto-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libghc-esqueleto-dev

How To Uninstall libghc-esqueleto-dev on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the libghc-esqueleto-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libghc-esqueleto-dev

Uninstall libghc-esqueleto-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libghc-esqueleto-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libghc-esqueleto-dev

Remove libghc-esqueleto-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libghc-esqueleto-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libghc-esqueleto-dev

Remove libghc-esqueleto-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libghc-esqueleto-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libghc-esqueleto-dev

Dependencies

libghc-esqueleto-dev have the following dependencies:

References

libghc-esqueleto-dev website

Summary

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