How To Install libghc-patience-dev on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libghc-patience-dev on Debian 10.
What is libghc-patience-dev
libghc-patience-dev is:
This library implements the “patience diff” algorithm, as well as the patience algorithm for the longest increasing subsequence problem.
Patience diff computes the difference between two lists, for example the lines of two versions of a source file. It provides a good balance of performance, nice output for humans, and implementation simplicity. For more information, see http://alfedenzo.livejournal.com/170301.html and http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/73318.html.
This package provides a library for the Haskell programming language. See http://www.haskell.org/ for more information on Haskell.
There are three methods to install libghc-patience-dev 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 libghc-patience-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libghc-patience-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libghc-patience-dev
Install libghc-patience-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libghc-patience-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libghc-patience-dev
Install libghc-patience-dev 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 libghc-patience-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libghc-patience-dev
How To Uninstall libghc-patience-dev on Debian 10
To uninstall only the libghc-patience-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libghc-patience-dev
Uninstall libghc-patience-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libghc-patience-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libghc-patience-dev
Remove libghc-patience-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libghc-patience-dev configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libghc-patience-dev
Remove libghc-patience-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libghc-patience-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libghc-patience-dev
Dependencies
libghc-patience-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libghc-patience-dev package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.