How To Install pelican-doc on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install pelican-doc on Debian 11. pelican-doc is blog aware, static website generator (documentation)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pelican-doc on Debian 11.

What is pelican-doc

pelican-doc is:

Pelican is a static site generator, written in Python. It allows you to write your weblog entries directly with your editor of choice in reStructuredText or Markdown, and generates completely static output that is easy to host anywhere. Pelican includes a simple CLI tool to (re)generate the weblog and it is easy to interface with DVCSes and web hooks.

This package provides documentation for Pelican.

There are three methods to install pelican-doc on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pelican-doc

Install pelican-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pelican-doc

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

sudo aptitude -y install pelican-doc

How To Uninstall pelican-doc on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove pelican-doc

Uninstall pelican-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pelican-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pelican-doc

Remove pelican-doc Configurations and Data

To remove pelican-doc configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pelican-doc

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

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

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

Dependencies

pelican-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pelican-doc package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.