How To Install utop 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 utop on Ubuntu.

What is `utop`

utop 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.

There are three methods to install utop 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 utop Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install utop using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install utop

Install utop Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install utop using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install utop

Install utop 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 utop using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install utop

How To Uninstall utop on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the utop package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove utop

Uninstall utop And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove utop

Remove utop Configurations and Data

To remove utop configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge utop

Remove utop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove utop configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge utop

Dependencies

utop have the following dependencies:

References

utop website

Summary

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