How To Install libastring-ocaml on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libastring-ocaml
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libastring-ocaml
libastring-ocaml is:
Astring exposes an alternative String module for OCaml. This module tries to balance minimality and expressiveness for basic, index-free, string processing and provides types and functions for substrings, string sets and string maps.
Remaining compatible with the OCaml String module is a non-goal. The String module exposed by Astring has exception safe functions, removes deprecated and rarely used functions, alters some signatures and names, adds a few missing functions and fully exploits OCaml’s newfound string immutability.
This package contains runtime files.
There are three methods to install libastring-ocaml
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libastring-ocaml Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libastring-ocaml
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libastring-ocaml
Install libastring-ocaml Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libastring-ocaml
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libastring-ocaml
Install libastring-ocaml 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 libastring-ocaml
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libastring-ocaml
How To Uninstall libastring-ocaml on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libastring-ocaml
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libastring-ocaml
Uninstall libastring-ocaml And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libastring-ocaml
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libastring-ocaml
Remove libastring-ocaml Configurations and Data
To remove libastring-ocaml
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libastring-ocaml
Remove libastring-ocaml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libastring-ocaml
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libastring-ocaml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libastring-ocaml
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.