How To Install libunix-errno-ocaml-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install libunix-errno-ocaml-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libunix-errno-ocaml-dev is errno variant that includes a variety of constructors – development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libunix-errno-ocaml-dev on Debian 12.

What is `libunix-errno-ocaml-dev`

libunix-errno-ocaml-dev is:

An errno variant similar to Unix.error but including POSIX 2008, Linux, OS X, and FreeBSD constructors. A macro definition type is also provided in order to transport a specific errno-integer map as is the case with FUSE or 9p2000.u. The types and their functions reside in Errno and are independent of any Unix bindings. This makes the library’s types usable from MirageOS on top of Xen.

The development files are required for development of OCaml modules using this package.

There are three methods to install libunix-errno-ocaml-dev 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 libunix-errno-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 libunix-errno-ocaml-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libunix-errno-ocaml-dev

Install libunix-errno-ocaml-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libunix-errno-ocaml-dev

Install libunix-errno-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 libunix-errno-ocaml-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libunix-errno-ocaml-dev

How To Uninstall libunix-errno-ocaml-dev on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libunix-errno-ocaml-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libunix-errno-ocaml-dev

Uninstall libunix-errno-ocaml-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libunix-errno-ocaml-dev

Remove libunix-errno-ocaml-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libunix-errno-ocaml-dev

Remove libunix-errno-ocaml-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libunix-errno-ocaml-dev

Dependencies

libunix-errno-ocaml-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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