How To Install wml 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 wml on Ubuntu.

What is wml

wml is:

WML (Website META Language) is a free and extensible Webdesigner’s off-line HTML generation toolkit for Unix. WML consists of a control frontend driving up to nine backends in a sequential pass-oriented filtering scheme. Each backend provides one particular core language. For maximum power WML additionally ships with a well-suited set of include files which provide higher-level features build on top of the backends core languages. While not trivial and idiot proof WML provides most of the core features real hackers always wanted for HTML generation.

iselect is needed for wmd, the WML Documentation browser. The remaining recommended or suggested packages are needed by optional passes or libraries.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install wml

Install wml Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install wml

Install wml 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 wml using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wml

How To Uninstall wml on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove wml

Uninstall wml And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wml

Remove wml Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge wml

Remove wml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wml

Dependencies

wml have the following dependencies:

• eperl
• libclass-xsaccessor-perl
• libcarp-always-perl
• libfile-which-perl
• libimage-size-perl
• liblist-moreutils-perl
• libpath-tiny-perl
• libterm-readkey-perl
• m4
• mp4h
• slice
• perl

References

• wml website

Summary

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