How To Install cpp-11-doc on Debian 12

Learn how to install cpp-11-doc on Debian 12 with this tutorial. cpp-11-doc is documentation for the GNU C preprocessor (cpp)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cpp-11-doc on Debian 12.

What is cpp-11-doc

cpp-11-doc is:

This package contains manual pages and documentation in info, html, and pdf format, for the GNU C prerocessor.

This documentation is licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, and contains invariant sections, so it can’t be part of Debian main.

There are three methods to install cpp-11-doc on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install cpp-11-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 cpp-11-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install cpp-11-doc

Install cpp-11-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install cpp-11-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install cpp-11-doc

Install cpp-11-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install cpp-11-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cpp-11-doc

How To Uninstall cpp-11-doc on Debian 12

To uninstall only the cpp-11-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove cpp-11-doc

Uninstall cpp-11-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall cpp-11-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cpp-11-doc

Remove cpp-11-doc Configurations and Data

To remove cpp-11-doc configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cpp-11-doc

Remove cpp-11-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove cpp-11-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cpp-11-doc

Dependencies

cpp-11-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cpp-11-doc package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.