How To Install glibc-doc-reference on Debian 12

Learn how to install glibc-doc-reference on Debian 12 with this tutorial. glibc-doc-reference is GNU C Library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install glibc-doc-reference on Debian 12.

What is glibc-doc-reference

glibc-doc-reference is:

Contains The GNU C Library Reference manual in info, pdf and html format.

There are three methods to install glibc-doc-reference on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install glibc-doc-reference Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install glibc-doc-reference

Install glibc-doc-reference Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install glibc-doc-reference

Install glibc-doc-reference 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 glibc-doc-reference using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install glibc-doc-reference

How To Uninstall glibc-doc-reference on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove glibc-doc-reference

Uninstall glibc-doc-reference And Its Dependencies

To uninstall glibc-doc-reference and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove glibc-doc-reference

Remove glibc-doc-reference Configurations and Data

To remove glibc-doc-reference configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge glibc-doc-reference

Remove glibc-doc-reference configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge glibc-doc-reference

Dependencies

glibc-doc-reference have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install glibc-doc-reference package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.