How To Install mandoc 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 mandoc on Ubuntu.
What is mandoc
mandoc is:
mandoc is a suite of tools compiling mdoc, the roff macro language of choice for BSD manual pages, and man, the predominant historical language for UNIX manuals. It is small, ISO C, ISC-licensed, and quite fast. The main component of the toolset is the mandoc utility program, based on the libmandoc validating compiler, to format output for UNIX terminals (with support for wide-character locales), XHTML, HTML, PostScript, and PDF.
There are three methods to install mandoc 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 mandoc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mandoc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mandoc
Install mandoc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mandoc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mandoc
Install mandoc 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 mandoc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mandoc
How To Uninstall mandoc on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the mandoc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mandoc
Uninstall mandoc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mandoc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mandoc
Remove mandoc Configurations and Data
To remove mandoc configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mandoc
Remove mandoc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mandoc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mandoc
Dependencies
mandoc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mandoc package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.