How To Install ducktype on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ducktype
on Debian 10.
What is ducktype
ducktype is:
Ducktype is a lightweight non-XML syntax for Mallard, a topic-oriented markup language for help files. Mallard is primarily used in GNOME help.
This package contains the ducktype command-line tool, which can be used to convert Ducktype documents into the Mallard XML format for further processing by the tools and stylesheets in the yelp-tools and yelp-xsl packages.
There are three methods to install ducktype
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 ducktype Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ducktype
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ducktype
Install ducktype Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ducktype
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ducktype
Install ducktype 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 ducktype
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ducktype
How To Uninstall ducktype on Debian 10
To uninstall only the ducktype
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ducktype
Uninstall ducktype And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ducktype
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ducktype
Remove ducktype Configurations and Data
To remove ducktype
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ducktype
Remove ducktype configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ducktype
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ducktype
Dependencies
ducktype have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ducktype
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.