How To Install doxygen-gui on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install doxygen-gui on Debian 11. doxygen-gui is GUI configuration tool for doxygen

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install doxygen-gui on Debian 11.

What is doxygen-gui

doxygen-gui 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 doxywizard, a GUI configuration tool for doxygen.

There are three methods to install doxygen-gui on Debian 11. 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-gui 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-gui using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install doxygen-gui

Install doxygen-gui Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install doxygen-gui

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

sudo aptitude -y install doxygen-gui

How To Uninstall doxygen-gui on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove doxygen-gui

Uninstall doxygen-gui And Its Dependencies

To uninstall doxygen-gui and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove doxygen-gui

Remove doxygen-gui Configurations and Data

To remove doxygen-gui configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge doxygen-gui

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

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

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

Dependencies

doxygen-gui have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install doxygen-gui package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.