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

What is `libutop-ocaml-dev`

libutop-ocaml-dev is:

utop is an improved toplevel for OCaml. It can run in a terminal or in Emacs. It supports line edition, history, real-time and context sensitive completion, colors, and more.

This package contains the development stuff needed to use the utop library in your programs.

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

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

Install libutop-ocaml-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libutop-ocaml-dev

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

sudo aptitude -y install libutop-ocaml-dev

How To Uninstall libutop-ocaml-dev on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove libutop-ocaml-dev

Uninstall libutop-ocaml-dev And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove libutop-ocaml-dev Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

libutop-ocaml-dev have the following dependencies:

References

libutop-ocaml-dev website

Summary

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