How To Install adacontrol-doc on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install adacontrol-doc on Ubuntu 20.04. adacontrol-doc is Ada rules controller (documentation)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install adacontrol-doc on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is adacontrol-doc

adacontrol-doc is:

AdaControl verifies that Ada software meets the requirements of a number of parameterizable rules. It is not intended to supplement checks made by the compiler, but rather to search for particular violations of good-practice rules, or to check that some rules are obeyed project-wide.

This package contains the documentation.

There are three methods to install adacontrol-doc on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install adacontrol-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 adacontrol-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install adacontrol-doc

Install adacontrol-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install adacontrol-doc

Install adacontrol-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install adacontrol-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install adacontrol-doc

How To Uninstall adacontrol-doc on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the adacontrol-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove adacontrol-doc

Uninstall adacontrol-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall adacontrol-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove adacontrol-doc

Remove adacontrol-doc Configurations and Data

To remove adacontrol-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge adacontrol-doc

Remove adacontrol-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge adacontrol-doc

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install adacontrol-doc package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.