How To Install geany-plugin-devhelp on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugin-devhelp on Debian 9.
What is geany-plugin-devhelp
geany-plugin-devhelp is:
This plugin embeds an API documentation browser and search functionality directly into Geany’s user interface.
Devhelp is an API documentation browser mainly aimed at GNOME-related libraries, although there are Devhelp books for a wide range of library APIs. Check your package manager and/or Google and you should have no trouble finding books that can be viewed with Devhelp.
Geany is a small and lightweight integrated development environment using the GTK+ toolkit.
There are three methods to install geany-plugin-devhelp 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 geany-plugin-devhelp Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install geany-plugin-devhelp using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install geany-plugin-devhelp
Install geany-plugin-devhelp Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install geany-plugin-devhelp using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install geany-plugin-devhelp
Install geany-plugin-devhelp 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 geany-plugin-devhelp using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install geany-plugin-devhelp
How To Uninstall geany-plugin-devhelp on Debian 9
To uninstall only the geany-plugin-devhelp package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove geany-plugin-devhelp
Uninstall geany-plugin-devhelp And Its Dependencies
To uninstall geany-plugin-devhelp and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove geany-plugin-devhelp
Remove geany-plugin-devhelp Configurations and Data
To remove geany-plugin-devhelp configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge geany-plugin-devhelp
Remove geany-plugin-devhelp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove geany-plugin-devhelp configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge geany-plugin-devhelp
Dependencies
geany-plugin-devhelp have the following dependencies:
- geany-abi-71
- geany-plugins-common
- gconf-service
- geany
- libc6
- libgconf-2-4
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libwebkitgtk-1.0-0
- libwnck22
- zlib1g
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugin-devhelp package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
