How To Install gnat-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnat-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is gnat-doc
gnat-doc is:
GNAT is a full-featured Ada 2012 compiler. A quote from http://www.adaic.org says: “Easily reused and maintained, readable and user friendly, Ada code facilitates such massive software projects as the Space Station and the Paris Metro. It has proven to be extraordinarily robust in decades’ worth of daily field tests under the most rigorous conditions in which millions of lives have been at stake.” Ada is the language for real-world, mission-critical programming.
At the same time, Ada’s radical type safety helps novice programmers avoid many common mistakes and deliver their software on time (see http://www.adaic.org/atwork/trains.html).
This is an empty package that depends on the documentation package for the default Ada compiler for Debian, which is part of the GNU Compiler Collection.
There are three methods to install gnat-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 gnat-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 gnat-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnat-doc
Install gnat-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnat-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnat-doc
Install gnat-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 gnat-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnat-doc
How To Uninstall gnat-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the gnat-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnat-doc
Uninstall gnat-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnat-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnat-doc
Remove gnat-doc Configurations and Data
To remove gnat-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnat-doc
Remove gnat-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnat-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnat-doc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnat-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
