How To Install libptime-ocaml on Debian 12

Learn how to install libptime-ocaml on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libptime-ocaml is POSIX time for OCaml (runtime)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libptime-ocaml on Debian 12.

What is libptime-ocaml

libptime-ocaml is:

Ptime has platform independent POSIX time support in pure OCaml. It provides a type to represent a well-defined range of POSIX timestamps with picosecond precision, conversion with date-time values, conversion with RFC 3339 timestamps and pretty printing to a human-readable, locale-independent representation.

This package contains runtime files.

There are three methods to install libptime-ocaml on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libptime-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 libptime-ocaml using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libptime-ocaml

Install libptime-ocaml Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libptime-ocaml

Install libptime-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 libptime-ocaml using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libptime-ocaml

How To Uninstall libptime-ocaml on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove libptime-ocaml

Uninstall libptime-ocaml And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libptime-ocaml and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libptime-ocaml

Remove libptime-ocaml Configurations and Data

To remove libptime-ocaml configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libptime-ocaml

Remove libptime-ocaml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libptime-ocaml

Dependencies

libptime-ocaml have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libptime-ocaml package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.