How To Install libpcre-ocaml-dev on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpcre-ocaml-dev
on Debian 11.
What is libpcre-ocaml-dev
libpcre-ocaml-dev is:
This OCaml-library interfaces the PCRE (Perl-compatibility regular expressions) C library. it can be used for matching regular expressions which are written in Perl style.
Compared with the OCaml standard library “Str” module, this library:
- uses Perl style rather than Emacs one
- is reentrant and thus thread safe
- is faster (when compiled to native code is even faster than Perl regular expressions)
- returns data on which you can safely use destructive updates
- gives more “programming comfort” through a better API
This package contains all the development stuff you need to use OCaml PCRE in your programs.
There are three methods to install libpcre-ocaml-dev
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libpcre-ocaml-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 libpcre-ocaml-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libpcre-ocaml-dev
Install libpcre-ocaml-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libpcre-ocaml-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libpcre-ocaml-dev
Install libpcre-ocaml-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 libpcre-ocaml-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libpcre-ocaml-dev
How To Uninstall libpcre-ocaml-dev on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libpcre-ocaml-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libpcre-ocaml-dev
Uninstall libpcre-ocaml-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libpcre-ocaml-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpcre-ocaml-dev
Remove libpcre-ocaml-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libpcre-ocaml-dev
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libpcre-ocaml-dev
Remove libpcre-ocaml-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libpcre-ocaml-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpcre-ocaml-dev
Dependencies
libpcre-ocaml-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpcre-ocaml-dev
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.