How To Install mame-doc on Debian 10

Learn how to install mame-doc on Debian 10 with this tutorial. mame-doc is Documentation for MAME

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mame-doc on Debian 10.

What is mame-doc

mame-doc is:

MAME is a hardware emulator: it faithfully reproduces the behavior of many arcade machines (it is not a simulation).

This is sphinx-generated full documentation for the MAME system.

There are three methods to install mame-doc on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install mame-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 mame-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mame-doc

Install mame-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mame-doc

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

sudo aptitude -y install mame-doc

How To Uninstall mame-doc on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove mame-doc

Uninstall mame-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mame-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mame-doc

Remove mame-doc Configurations and Data

To remove mame-doc configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mame-doc

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

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

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

Dependencies

mame-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mame-doc package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.