How To Install fweb on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fweb
on Debian 9.
What is fweb
fweb is:
Literate-programming allows the programmer to write a program’s code and its code’s documentation, with equal importance accorded to both. This helps producing a well-documented code.
FWEB has grown out of Knuth and Levy’s CWEB; it is far more configurable and customizable than the original, uses LaTeX to typeset documented code, provides a very powerful macro processor…
Ratfor programmers may appreciate the builtin Ratfor-to-Fortran translator if they don’t have the right compiler.
Other languages than those cited may be used, but without code pretty-printing.
There are three methods to install fweb
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 fweb Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fweb
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fweb
Install fweb Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fweb
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fweb
Install fweb 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 fweb
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fweb
How To Uninstall fweb on Debian 9
To uninstall only the fweb
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fweb
Uninstall fweb And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fweb
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fweb
Remove fweb Configurations and Data
To remove fweb
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fweb
Remove fweb configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fweb
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fweb
Dependencies
fweb have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fweb
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.