How To Install oasis on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install oasis on Debian 9. oasis is Build-system generation for OCaml projects – binaries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install oasis on Debian 9.

What is oasis

oasis is:

OASIS generates a full configure, build and install system for your application. It starts with a simple _oasis file at the toplevel of your project and creates everything required.

It uses external tools like OCamlbuild and it can be considered as the glue between various subsystems that do the job. It should support the following tools:

  • OCamlbuild
  • OMake (todo)
  • OCamlMakefile (todo),
  • ocaml-autoconf (todo)

It also features a do-it-yourself command line invocation and an internal configure/install scheme. Libraries are managed through findlib. It has been tested on GNU Linux and Windows.

OASIS supports standard entry points and descriptions. It helps to integrates your libraries and software with third parties tools like GODI.

This package contains command-line tools.

There are three methods to install oasis 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 oasis Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install oasis

Install oasis Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install oasis using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install oasis

Install oasis 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 oasis using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install oasis

How To Uninstall oasis on Debian 9

To uninstall only the oasis package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove oasis

Uninstall oasis And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove oasis

Remove oasis Configurations and Data

To remove oasis configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge oasis

Remove oasis configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge oasis

Dependencies

oasis have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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