How To Install doconce on Debian 10

Learn how to install doconce on Debian 10 with this tutorial. doconce is document once, include anywhere

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install doconce on Debian 10.

What is doconce

doconce is:

Doconce is two things:

  1. Doconce is a very simple and minimally tagged markup language that looks like ordinary ASCII text (much like what you would use in an email), but the text can be transformed to numerous other formats, including HTML, Wiki, LaTeX, PDF, reStructuredText (reST), Sphinx, Epytext, and also plain text (where non-obvious formatting/tags are removed for clear reading in, e.g., emails). From reStructuredText you can go to XML, HTML, LaTeX, PDF, OpenOffice, and from the latter to RTF and MS Word. From Pandoc one can generate Markdown, reST, LaTeX, HTML, PDF, DocBook XML, OpenOffice, GNU Texinfo, MediaWiki, RTF, Groff, and other formats.

  2. Doconce is a working strategy for never duplicating information. Text is written in a single place and then transformed to a number of different destinations of diverse type (software source code, manuals, tutorials, books, wikis, memos, emails, etc.). The Doconce markup language support this working strategy. The slogan is: “Write once, include anywhere”.

There are three methods to install doconce on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install doconce Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install doconce

Install doconce Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install doconce

Install doconce 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 doconce using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install doconce

How To Uninstall doconce on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove doconce

Uninstall doconce And Its Dependencies

To uninstall doconce and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove doconce

Remove doconce Configurations and Data

To remove doconce configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge doconce

Remove doconce configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge doconce

Dependencies

doconce have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install doconce package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.