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

What is `libocamlnet-ocaml-dev`

libocamlnet-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 core Ocamlnet libraries in your programs. The following libraries are packaged separately: SSL-related libraries (libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml-dev), GTK-related libraries (libocamlnet-gtk2-ocaml-dev), nethttpd (libnethttpd-ocaml-dev). The netcgi2 Apache connector is also part of this package; to run applications built for that connector you will need the mod_netcgi_apache Apache module (libapache2-mod-ocamlnet).

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

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

Install libocamlnet-ocaml-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libocamlnet-ocaml-dev

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

sudo aptitude -y install libocamlnet-ocaml-dev

How To Uninstall libocamlnet-ocaml-dev on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove libocamlnet-ocaml-dev

Uninstall libocamlnet-ocaml-dev And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove libocamlnet-ocaml-dev Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

libocamlnet-ocaml-dev have the following dependencies:

References

libocamlnet-ocaml-dev website

Summary

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