How To Install tokyocabinet-doc on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install tokyocabinet-doc on Debian 9. tokyocabinet-doc is Tokyo Cabinet Database Documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tokyocabinet-doc on Debian 9.

What is tokyocabinet-doc

tokyocabinet-doc is:

Tokyo Cabinet is an efficient database library like GDBM and NDBM. It features hash database and B+ tree database and is developed as the successor of QDBM, for the purpose of the following three points: higher processing speed, smaller size of a database file, and simpler API.

This package contains documentation for all of the API’s and utilities provided by Tokyo Cabinet.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tokyocabinet-doc

Install tokyocabinet-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tokyocabinet-doc

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

sudo aptitude -y install tokyocabinet-doc

How To Uninstall tokyocabinet-doc on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove tokyocabinet-doc

Uninstall tokyocabinet-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tokyocabinet-doc

Remove tokyocabinet-doc Configurations and Data

To remove tokyocabinet-doc configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tokyocabinet-doc

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

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

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

Dependencies

tokyocabinet-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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