How To Install lout-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lout-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lout-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
