How To Install geany-plugin-doc on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugin-doc on Debian 9.
What is geany-plugin-doc
geany-plugin-doc is:
Geanydoc is a plugin for the Geany IDE which is intended to be used to search for documentation API from different sources. It allows execution of specified commands on the current word at the cursor position or otherwise specified via a dialog to obtain this documentation. This documentation is displayed in the geany buffer as a tab called DOC, or may be displayed in an external program.
After installing this package, you’ll need to enable the “Doc” plugin and then setup a keyword binding for it in Geany’s preferences dialogue.
Geany is a small and lightweight integrated development environment using the GTK+ toolkit.
There are three methods to install geany-plugin-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 geany-plugin-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 geany-plugin-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install geany-plugin-doc
Install geany-plugin-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install geany-plugin-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install geany-plugin-doc
Install geany-plugin-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 geany-plugin-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install geany-plugin-doc
How To Uninstall geany-plugin-doc on Debian 9
To uninstall only the geany-plugin-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove geany-plugin-doc
Uninstall geany-plugin-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall geany-plugin-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove geany-plugin-doc
Remove geany-plugin-doc Configurations and Data
To remove geany-plugin-doc configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge geany-plugin-doc
Remove geany-plugin-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove geany-plugin-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge geany-plugin-doc
Dependencies
geany-plugin-doc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugin-doc package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.