How To Install dietlibc-doc on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dietlibc-doc on Debian 9.
What is dietlibc-doc
dietlibc-doc is:
The diet libc is a C library that is optimized for small size. It can be used to create small statically linked binaries for Linux on alpha, arm, ia64, mips, mipsel, ppc, parisc, s390, sparc and x86.
This package contains the documentation for the diet libc.
There are three methods to install dietlibc-doc on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install dietlibc-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 dietlibc-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dietlibc-doc
Install dietlibc-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dietlibc-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dietlibc-doc
Install dietlibc-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 dietlibc-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dietlibc-doc
How To Uninstall dietlibc-doc on Debian 9
To uninstall only the dietlibc-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dietlibc-doc
Uninstall dietlibc-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dietlibc-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dietlibc-doc
Remove dietlibc-doc Configurations and Data
To remove dietlibc-doc configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dietlibc-doc
Remove dietlibc-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dietlibc-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dietlibc-doc
Dependencies
dietlibc-doc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dietlibc-doc package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.