How To Install vdk-doc on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vdk-doc
on Debian 9.
What is vdk-doc
vdk-doc is:
The Visual Development Kit (VDK) is a C++ library that wraps the GTK+ toolkit.
This package contains the reference for VDK. It will be put in /usr/share/doc/vdk-doc/.
There are three methods to install vdk-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 vdk-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 vdk-doc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vdk-doc
Install vdk-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vdk-doc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vdk-doc
Install vdk-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 vdk-doc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vdk-doc
How To Uninstall vdk-doc on Debian 9
To uninstall only the vdk-doc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vdk-doc
Uninstall vdk-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vdk-doc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vdk-doc
Remove vdk-doc Configurations and Data
To remove vdk-doc
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vdk-doc
Remove vdk-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vdk-doc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vdk-doc
Dependencies
vdk-doc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vdk-doc
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.