How To Install doxygen-doc on Debian 10

Learn how to install doxygen-doc on Debian 10 with this tutorial. doxygen-doc is Documentation for doxygen

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install doxygen-doc on Debian 10.

What is doxygen-doc

doxygen-doc 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 documentation for doxygen.

There are three methods to install doxygen-doc on Debian 10. 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-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 doxygen-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install doxygen-doc

Install doxygen-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install doxygen-doc

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

sudo aptitude -y install doxygen-doc

How To Uninstall doxygen-doc on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove doxygen-doc

Uninstall doxygen-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall doxygen-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove doxygen-doc

Remove doxygen-doc Configurations and Data

To remove doxygen-doc configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge doxygen-doc

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

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

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

Dependencies

doxygen-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install doxygen-doc package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.