How To Install glbinding-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install glbinding-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. glbinding-doc is documentation for glbinding

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install glbinding-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is glbinding-doc

glbinding-doc is:

glbinding leverages modern C++11 features like enum classes, lambdas, and variadic templates, instead of relying on macros; all OpenGL symbols are real functions and variables.

It provides type-safe parameters, per feature API header, lazy function resolution, multi-context and multi-thread support, global and local function callbacks, meta information about the generated OpenGL binding and the OpenGL runtime, as well as tools and examples for quick-starting your projects.

This package provides the documentation.

There are three methods to install glbinding-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install glbinding-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 glbinding-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install glbinding-doc

Install glbinding-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install glbinding-doc

Install glbinding-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install glbinding-doc

How To Uninstall glbinding-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove glbinding-doc

Uninstall glbinding-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall glbinding-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove glbinding-doc

Remove glbinding-doc Configurations and Data

To remove glbinding-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge glbinding-doc

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

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

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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install glbinding-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.