How To Install libnethttpd-ocaml-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 libnethttpd-ocaml-dev on Ubuntu.

What is `libnethttpd-ocaml-dev`

libnethttpd-ocaml-dev is:

Ocamlnet is a collection of OCaml libraries focusing focus on application-level Internet protocols and conventions.

Ocamlnet consists of the following libraries:

netstring: processing of strings that occur in network context
netcgi2: portable web applications
nethttpd: is a web server component (HTTP server implementation)
netplex: generic server framework
rpc: OncRPC implementation
netclient: clients for HTTP, FTP, and Telnet
equeue: event queue used for many protocol implementations
shell: external commands invocation
netshm: shared memory for IPC purposes
netsys: bindings for system functions
smtp and pop: two further client implementations

A number of ideas and concepts are used throughout the libraries:

netchannels are a way to abstract sequential I/O channels
event queues provided by equeue and unixqueue make asynchronous protocol interpreters possible

This package contains the development stuff you need to use the nethttpd library in your programs.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libnethttpd-ocaml-dev

Install libnethttpd-ocaml-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libnethttpd-ocaml-dev

Install libnethttpd-ocaml-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 libnethttpd-ocaml-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libnethttpd-ocaml-dev

How To Uninstall libnethttpd-ocaml-dev on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the libnethttpd-ocaml-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libnethttpd-ocaml-dev

Uninstall libnethttpd-ocaml-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libnethttpd-ocaml-dev

Remove libnethttpd-ocaml-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libnethttpd-ocaml-dev

Remove libnethttpd-ocaml-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libnethttpd-ocaml-dev

Dependencies

libnethttpd-ocaml-dev have the following dependencies:

References

libnethttpd-ocaml-dev website

Summary

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