How To Install halibut on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install halibut on Debian 9.
What is halibut
halibut is:
This is yet another text formatting system, intended primarily for writing software documentation. It accepts a single source format and outputs any or all of text, HTML, Windows Help, man pages, GNU info, PostScript, or PDF. It has comprehensive indexing and cross-referencing support, and generates hyperlinks within output documents wherever possible. It supports Unicode, with the ability to fall back to an alternative representation when Unicode output is not available.
There are three methods to install halibut 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 halibut Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install halibut using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install halibut
Install halibut Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install halibut using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install halibut
Install halibut 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 halibut using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install halibut
How To Uninstall halibut on Debian 9
To uninstall only the halibut package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove halibut
Uninstall halibut And Its Dependencies
To uninstall halibut and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove halibut
Remove halibut Configurations and Data
To remove halibut configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge halibut
Remove halibut configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove halibut configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge halibut
Dependencies
halibut have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install halibut package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.