How To Install libmx-doc on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmx-doc on Debian 9. libmx-doc is toolkit for the Moblin user experience (documentation)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmx-doc on Debian 9.

What is libmx-doc

libmx-doc is:

The MX toolkit is a GUI toolkit library, using Clutter and is optimized for the Moblin user experience. It consists of various classes useful for building UIs such as Buttons, Tooltips, Scrollbars and others. It also supports styling through CSS stylesheets.

This package contains the documentation.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libmx-doc

Install libmx-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libmx-doc

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

sudo aptitude -y install libmx-doc

How To Uninstall libmx-doc on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove libmx-doc

Uninstall libmx-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libmx-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmx-doc

Remove libmx-doc Configurations and Data

To remove libmx-doc configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libmx-doc

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

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

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

Dependencies

libmx-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmx-doc package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.