How To Install hoogle on Debian 10

Learn how to install hoogle on Debian 10 with this tutorial. hoogle is Haskell API Search for Debian system

Introduction

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

What is hoogle

hoogle is:

Hoogle is a Haskell API search engine, which allows you to search many standard Haskell libraries by either function name, or by approximate type signature.

This package contains the hoogle command.

There are three methods to install hoogle 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 hoogle Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install hoogle

Install hoogle Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install hoogle

Install hoogle 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 hoogle using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install hoogle

How To Uninstall hoogle on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove hoogle

Uninstall hoogle And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove hoogle

Remove hoogle Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge hoogle

Remove hoogle configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hoogle

Dependencies

hoogle have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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