How To Install debian-coq-tools on Debian 12

Learn how to install debian-coq-tools on Debian 12 with this tutorial. debian-coq-tools is various tools to manage Coq-related Debian packages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install debian-coq-tools on Debian 12.

What is debian-coq-tools

debian-coq-tools is:

Those tools make it easier to track package dependencies and possible breakage and maintain the whole Coq-in-Debian stack sane:

  • coq-planif-transition: find out which packages depend on some others for transition planification.
  • coq-wanna-build: compute the dak script for a planned transition.

Coq is a proof assistant for higher-order logic.

There are three methods to install debian-coq-tools 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 debian-coq-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install debian-coq-tools

Install debian-coq-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install debian-coq-tools using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install debian-coq-tools

Install debian-coq-tools 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 debian-coq-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install debian-coq-tools

How To Uninstall debian-coq-tools on Debian 12

To uninstall only the debian-coq-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove debian-coq-tools

Uninstall debian-coq-tools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove debian-coq-tools

Remove debian-coq-tools Configurations and Data

To remove debian-coq-tools configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge debian-coq-tools

Remove debian-coq-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove debian-coq-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge debian-coq-tools

Dependencies

debian-coq-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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