How To Install doxygen-dbg on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install doxygen-dbg on Debian 9. doxygen-dbg is Debug symbols for doxygen

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install doxygen-dbg on Debian 9.

What is doxygen-dbg

doxygen-dbg is:

Doxygen is a documentation system for C, C++, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL and to some extent PHP, C#, and D. It can generate an on-line class browser (in HTML) and/or an off-line reference manual (in LaTeX) from a set of documented source files. There is also support for generating man pages and for converting the generated output into Postscript, hyperlinked PDF or compressed HTML. The documentation is extracted directly from the sources.

This package contains the debug symbols for doxygen.

There are three methods to install doxygen-dbg 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 doxygen-dbg Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install doxygen-dbg

Install doxygen-dbg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install doxygen-dbg

Install doxygen-dbg 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 doxygen-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install doxygen-dbg

How To Uninstall doxygen-dbg on Debian 9

To uninstall only the doxygen-dbg package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove doxygen-dbg

Uninstall doxygen-dbg And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove doxygen-dbg

Remove doxygen-dbg Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge doxygen-dbg

Remove doxygen-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge doxygen-dbg

Dependencies

doxygen-dbg have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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