How To Install mandoc on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install mandoc on Debian 11. mandoc is BSD manpage compiler toolset

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mandoc on Debian 11.

What is mandoc

mandoc is:

mandoc is a suite of tools compiling mdoc, the roff macro language of choice for BSD manual pages, and man, the predominant historical language for UNIX manuals. It is small, ISO C, ISC-licensed, and quite fast. The main component of the toolset is the mandoc utility program, based on the libmandoc validating compiler, to format output for UNIX terminals (with support for wide-character locales), XHTML, HTML, PostScript, and PDF.

There are three methods to install mandoc on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install mandoc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install mandoc

Install mandoc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mandoc

Install mandoc 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 mandoc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mandoc

How To Uninstall mandoc on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove mandoc

Uninstall mandoc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mandoc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mandoc

Remove mandoc Configurations and Data

To remove mandoc configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mandoc

Remove mandoc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mandoc

Dependencies

mandoc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mandoc package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.