How To Install nim-doc on Debian 10

Learn how to install nim-doc on Debian 10 with this tutorial. nim-doc is Nim programming language - documentation

Introduction

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

What is nim-doc

nim-doc is:

Nim is a statically typed, imperative programming language that generates native code via compilation to C. It provides a non-tracing GC, high level datatypes and local type inference, and bindings to a lot of C libraries.

This is a documentation package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nim-doc

Install nim-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install nim-doc

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

sudo aptitude -y install nim-doc

How To Uninstall nim-doc on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove nim-doc

Uninstall nim-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove nim-doc

Remove nim-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge nim-doc

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

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

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

Dependencies

nim-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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