How To Install skalibs-doc 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 skalibs-doc on Ubuntu.
What is skalibs-doc
skalibs-doc is:
skalibs is a package centralizing the free software / open source C development files used for building all software at skarnet.org: it contains essentially general-purpose libraries. You will need to install skalibs if you plan to build skarnet.org software. The point is that you won’t have to download and compile big libraries, and care about portability issues, every time you need to build a package: do it only once.
skalibs can also be used as a sound basic start for C development. There are a lot of general-purpose libraries out there; but if your main goal is to produce small and secure C code with a focus on system programming, skalibs might be for you.
This package contains documentation files.
There are three methods to install skalibs-doc 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 skalibs-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install skalibs-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install skalibs-doc
Install skalibs-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install skalibs-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install skalibs-doc
Install skalibs-doc 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 skalibs-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install skalibs-doc
How To Uninstall skalibs-doc on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the skalibs-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove skalibs-doc
Uninstall skalibs-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall skalibs-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove skalibs-doc
Remove skalibs-doc Configurations and Data
To remove skalibs-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge skalibs-doc
Remove skalibs-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove skalibs-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge skalibs-doc
Dependencies
skalibs-doc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install skalibs-doc package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.