How To Install halibut on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install halibut
on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 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 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove halibut
Remove halibut Configurations and Data
To remove halibut
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install halibut
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.