How To Install libalcotest-ocaml-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install libalcotest-ocaml-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libalcotest-ocaml-dev is lightweight and colourful test framework for OCaml

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libalcotest-ocaml-dev on Debian 12.

What is `libalcotest-ocaml-dev`

libalcotest-ocaml-dev is:

Alcotest exposes simple interface to perform unit tests. It exposes a simple TESTABLE module type, a check function to assert test predicates and a run function to perform a list of unit -> unit test callbacks.

Alcotest provides a quiet and colorful output where only faulty runs are fully displayed at the end of the run (with the full logs ready to inspect), with a simple (yet expressive) query language to select the tests to run.

There are three methods to install libalcotest-ocaml-dev 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 libalcotest-ocaml-dev Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libalcotest-ocaml-dev

Install libalcotest-ocaml-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libalcotest-ocaml-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libalcotest-ocaml-dev

Install libalcotest-ocaml-dev 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 libalcotest-ocaml-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libalcotest-ocaml-dev

How To Uninstall libalcotest-ocaml-dev on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libalcotest-ocaml-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libalcotest-ocaml-dev

Uninstall libalcotest-ocaml-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libalcotest-ocaml-dev

Remove libalcotest-ocaml-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libalcotest-ocaml-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libalcotest-ocaml-dev

Remove libalcotest-ocaml-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libalcotest-ocaml-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libalcotest-ocaml-dev

Dependencies

libalcotest-ocaml-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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