How To Install monotone-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install monotone-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. monotone-doc is Distributed version (revision) control system - documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install monotone-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is monotone-doc

monotone-doc is:

Monotone is a free, distributed version control system. It provides fully disconnected operation, manages complete tree versions, keeps its state in a local transactional database, supports overlapping branches and extensible metadata, uses an efficient peer-to-peer network protocol, performs history-sensitive merging, and delegates trust functions to client-side RSA certificates.

This package contains the documentation for monotone in Info, HTML, and PDF formats.

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

sudo apt-get -y install monotone-doc

Install monotone-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install monotone-doc

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

sudo aptitude -y install monotone-doc

How To Uninstall monotone-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove monotone-doc

Uninstall monotone-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall monotone-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove monotone-doc

Remove monotone-doc Configurations and Data

To remove monotone-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge monotone-doc

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

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

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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install monotone-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.