How To Install docbook on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install docbook on Debian 9.
What is docbook
docbook is:
DocBook is an SGML document type definition (DTD) that is well-suited to books, articles, or reference documentation about technical matters, systems, or software (although it is by no means limited to these applications). It has emerged as an open and standard DTD in the software industry, and is used as the documentation system of choice for many free software projects.
This package contains the SGML DTD for DocBook, which describes the formal structure for documents following this format. If you wish to author DocBook documents using XML rather than SGML, use the ‘docbook-xml’ package. You will need other packages in order to edit (psgml), validate (opensp) or format (docbook-xsl, docbook-dsssl) DocBook documents.
This package includes the 2.4.1, 3.0, 3.1, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5 versions of the DocBook SGML DTD.
There are three methods to install docbook 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 docbook Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install docbook using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install docbook
Install docbook Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install docbook using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install docbook
Install docbook 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 docbook using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install docbook
How To Uninstall docbook on Debian 9
To uninstall only the docbook package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove docbook
Uninstall docbook And Its Dependencies
To uninstall docbook and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove docbook
Remove docbook Configurations and Data
To remove docbook configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge docbook
Remove docbook configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove docbook configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge docbook
Dependencies
docbook have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install docbook package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.