How To Install dhelp on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dhelp on Debian 12.
What is dhelp
dhelp is:
Read all documentation with a WWW browser. dhelp builds an index of all installed HTML documentation. You don’t need a WWW server to read the documentation. dhelp offers a very fast search in the HTML documents.
You can access the online help system with the dhelp program or with your browser. The URL to point your browser at is (if you have a WWW server installed) http://localhost/doc/HTML/index.html , else (if you do not) file://localhost/usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html.
There are three methods to install dhelp 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 dhelp Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dhelp using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dhelp
Install dhelp Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dhelp using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dhelp
Install dhelp 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 dhelp using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dhelp
How To Uninstall dhelp on Debian 12
To uninstall only the dhelp package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dhelp
Uninstall dhelp And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dhelp and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dhelp
Remove dhelp Configurations and Data
To remove dhelp configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dhelp
Remove dhelp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dhelp configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dhelp
Dependencies
dhelp have the following dependencies:
- doc-base
- ghostscript
- libcgi-pm-perl
- libdata-page-perl
- libhtml-parser-perl
- liblocale-gettext-perl
- libtemplate-perl
- liburi-perl
- poppler-utils
- ruby
- ruby-dbm
- ruby-debian
- ruby-gettext
- sensible-utils
- swish++
- ucf
- perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dhelp package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.