How To Install libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml on Debian 10

Learn how to install libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml is OCaml application-level Internet libraries - SSL runtime libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml on Debian 10.

What is libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml

libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml is:

Ocamlnet is a collection of OCaml libraries focusing focus on application-level Internet protocols and conventions.

Ocamlnet consists of the following libraries:

  • netstring: processing of strings that occur in network context
  • netcgi2: portable web applications
  • nethttpd: is a web server component (HTTP server implementation)
  • netplex: generic server framework
  • rpc: OncRPC implementation
  • netclient: clients for HTTP, FTP, and Telnet
  • equeue: event queue used for many protocol implementations
  • shell: external commands invocation
  • netshm: shared memory for IPC purposes
  • netsys: bindings for system functions
  • smtp and pop: two further client implementations

A number of ideas and concepts are used throughout the libraries:

  • netchannels are a way to abstract sequential I/O channels
  • event queues provided by equeue and unixqueue make asynchronous protocol interpreters possible

This package contains only the shared runtime stub libraries for the SSL-related libraries of Ocamlnet.

There are three methods to install libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml 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 libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml

Install libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml

Install libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml 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 libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml

How To Uninstall libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml

Uninstall libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml

Remove libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml Configurations and Data

To remove libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml

Remove libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml

Dependencies

libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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