How To Install kapidox on Debian 12

Learn how to install kapidox on Debian 12 with this tutorial. kapidox is API documentation generation tool for KDE frameworks

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kapidox on Debian 12.

What is kapidox

kapidox is:

Framework to aid in creating API documentation for KDE Frameworks in a standard format and style.

The Doxygen tool is used to do the actual documentation extraction and formatting, but this framework provides a wrapper script to make generating the documentation more convenient (including reading settings from the target framework or other module) and a standard template for the generated documentation.

Scripts currently provided are depdiagram-generate-all, kgenframeworksapidox, depdiagram-generate, kgenapidox, and depdiagram-prepare

There are three methods to install kapidox 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 kapidox Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install kapidox

Install kapidox Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install kapidox using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install kapidox

Install kapidox 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 kapidox using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kapidox

How To Uninstall kapidox on Debian 12

To uninstall only the kapidox package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove kapidox

Uninstall kapidox And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kapidox

Remove kapidox Configurations and Data

To remove kapidox configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge kapidox

Remove kapidox configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kapidox

Dependencies

kapidox have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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