How To Install libgcab-doc on Debian 10

Learn how to install libgcab-doc on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libgcab-doc is Microsoft Cabinet file manipulation library - documentation

Introduction

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

What is libgcab-doc

libgcab-doc is:

libgcab provides functions to manipulate cabinet (.cab) files, both for reading and writing their contents.

This package contains the documentation.

There are three methods to install libgcab-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 libgcab-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 libgcab-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libgcab-doc

Install libgcab-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libgcab-doc

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

sudo aptitude -y install libgcab-doc

How To Uninstall libgcab-doc on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove libgcab-doc

Uninstall libgcab-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgcab-doc

Remove libgcab-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libgcab-doc

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

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

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

Dependencies

libgcab-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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