How To Install daps on Debian 12

Learn how to install daps on Debian 12 with this tutorial. daps is DocBook Authoring and Publishing Suite (DAPS)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install daps on Debian 12.

What is `daps`

daps is:

DAPS contains a set of stylesheets, scripts and makefiles that enable you to create HTML, PDF, EPUB and other formats from DocBook XML with a single command. It also contains tools to generate profiled source tarballs for distributing your XML sources for translation or review.

DAPS also includes tools that assist you when writing DocBook XML: linkchecker, validator, spellchecker, editor macros and stylesheets for converting DocBook XML.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install daps

Install daps Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install daps

Install daps 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 daps using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install daps

How To Uninstall daps on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove daps

Uninstall daps And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove daps

Remove daps Configurations and Data

To remove daps configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge daps

Remove daps configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge daps

Dependencies

daps have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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