How To Install coccinelle-doc on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install coccinelle-doc on Debian 9. coccinelle-doc is documentation for coccinelle

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install coccinelle-doc on Debian 9.

What is coccinelle-doc

coccinelle-doc is:

Coccinelle is a program matching and transformation tool for C. The programmer describes the code to match and the transformation to perform as a semantic patch, which looks like a standard patch, but can transform multiple files at any number of code sites.

This package contains examples files and additional documentation in PDF format.

There are three methods to install coccinelle-doc on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install coccinelle-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 coccinelle-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install coccinelle-doc

Install coccinelle-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install coccinelle-doc

Install coccinelle-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install coccinelle-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install coccinelle-doc

How To Uninstall coccinelle-doc on Debian 9

To uninstall only the coccinelle-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove coccinelle-doc

Uninstall coccinelle-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall coccinelle-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove coccinelle-doc

Remove coccinelle-doc Configurations and Data

To remove coccinelle-doc configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge coccinelle-doc

Remove coccinelle-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge coccinelle-doc

Dependencies

coccinelle-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install coccinelle-doc package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.