How To Install lout-doc on Debian 9

Introduction

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

What is lout-doc

lout-doc is:

Documents describing the Lout document formatting system:

• A Practical Introduction to the Lout Document Formatting System (overhead transparencies)
• A User’s Guide to the Lout Document Formatting System
• An Expert’s Guide to the Lout Document Formatting System
• `The design and implementation of the Lout document formatting language’, Software–Practice and Experience, vol. 23, pp. 1001-1041 (September 1993)

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

sudo apt-get -y install lout-doc

Install lout-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lout-doc

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

sudo aptitude -y install lout-doc

How To Uninstall lout-doc on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove lout-doc

Uninstall lout-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lout-doc

Remove lout-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge lout-doc

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

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

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

Dependencies

lout-doc have the following dependencies:

References

• lout-doc website

Summary

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