How To Install kimwitu-doc on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install kimwitu-doc on Debian 9. kimwitu-doc is documentation for compiler development tool Kimwitu

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kimwitu-doc on Debian 9.

What is kimwitu-doc

kimwitu-doc is:

Kimwitu (pronounced kee’mweetoo) is a system that supports the construction of programs that use trees or terms as their main data structure. It is a meta-tool in the development process of tools.

It can easily be interfaced with Yacc and Lex - the idea is that yacc and lex are used to do the parsing, and Kimwitu routines are used to built and manipulate the parse tree.

There is also Kimwitu++ (also packaged for Debian) which interfaces with C++ instead of C; its documentation is still a little shaky, so this document might be useful for it.

There are three methods to install kimwitu-doc 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 kimwitu-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 kimwitu-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install kimwitu-doc

Install kimwitu-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kimwitu-doc

Install kimwitu-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install kimwitu-doc

How To Uninstall kimwitu-doc on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove kimwitu-doc

Uninstall kimwitu-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall kimwitu-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kimwitu-doc

Remove kimwitu-doc Configurations and Data

To remove kimwitu-doc configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge kimwitu-doc

Remove kimwitu-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kimwitu-doc

Dependencies

kimwitu-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install kimwitu-doc package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.