How To Install gnome-doc-utils on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-doc-utils on Debian 10.
What is gnome-doc-utils
gnome-doc-utils is:
gnome-doc-utils is a collection of documentation utilities for the GNOME project. Notably, it contains utilities for building documentation and all auxiliary files in your source tree, and it contains the DocBook XSLT stylesheets that were once distributed with Yelp.
In new projects, please use the yelp-tools package instead.
There are three methods to install gnome-doc-utils 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 gnome-doc-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-doc-utils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-doc-utils
Install gnome-doc-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-doc-utils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-doc-utils
Install gnome-doc-utils 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 gnome-doc-utils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-doc-utils
How To Uninstall gnome-doc-utils on Debian 10
To uninstall only the gnome-doc-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-doc-utils
Uninstall gnome-doc-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-doc-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-doc-utils
Remove gnome-doc-utils Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-doc-utils configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-doc-utils
Remove gnome-doc-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-doc-utils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-doc-utils
Dependencies
gnome-doc-utils have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-doc-utils package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
