How To Install flycheck-doc on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install flycheck-doc on Debian 9.

What is flycheck-doc

flycheck-doc is:

Flycheck uses various syntax checking and linting tools to automatically check the contents of buffers while the user types, and reports warnings and errors directly in the buffer, or in an optional error list.

This package includes flycheck’s HTML documentation.

There are three methods to install flycheck-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 flycheck-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 flycheck-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install flycheck-doc

Install flycheck-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install flycheck-doc

Install flycheck-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 flycheck-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install flycheck-doc

How To Uninstall flycheck-doc on Debian 9

To uninstall only the flycheck-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove flycheck-doc

Uninstall flycheck-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall flycheck-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove flycheck-doc

Remove flycheck-doc Configurations and Data

To remove flycheck-doc configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge flycheck-doc

Remove flycheck-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge flycheck-doc

Dependencies

flycheck-doc have the following dependencies:

• elpa-flycheck
• libjs-sphinxdoc

References

• flycheck-doc website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install flycheck-doc package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.