How To Install synopsis-idl on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install synopsis-idl
on Debian 9.
What is synopsis-idl
synopsis-idl is:
Synopsis is a multi-language source code introspection tool that provides a variety of representations for the parsed code to enable further processing such as documentation extraction, reverse engineering, and source-to-source translation.
Synopsis provides a framework of C++ and Python APIs to access these representations and allows Processor objects to be defined and composed into processing pipelines, making this framework very flexible and extensible.
This package contains the IDL parser.
There are three methods to install synopsis-idl
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 synopsis-idl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install synopsis-idl
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install synopsis-idl
Install synopsis-idl Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install synopsis-idl
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install synopsis-idl
Install synopsis-idl 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 synopsis-idl
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install synopsis-idl
How To Uninstall synopsis-idl on Debian 9
To uninstall only the synopsis-idl
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove synopsis-idl
Uninstall synopsis-idl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall synopsis-idl
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove synopsis-idl
Remove synopsis-idl Configurations and Data
To remove synopsis-idl
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge synopsis-idl
Remove synopsis-idl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove synopsis-idl
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge synopsis-idl
Dependencies
synopsis-idl have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install synopsis-idl
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.