How To Install libcereal-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcereal-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. libcereal-doc is C++11 library for serialization HTML documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcereal-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is libcereal-doc

libcereal-doc is:

cereal is a header-only C++11 serialization library. cereal takes arbitrary data types and reversibly turns them into different representations, such as compact binary encodings, XML, or JSON. cereal was designed to be fast, light-weight, and easy to extend - it has no external dependencies and can be easily bundled with other code or used standalone.

This package contains the HTML documentation.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libcereal-doc

Install libcereal-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libcereal-doc

Install libcereal-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install libcereal-doc

How To Uninstall libcereal-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove libcereal-doc

Uninstall libcereal-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libcereal-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcereal-doc

Remove libcereal-doc Configurations and Data

To remove libcereal-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libcereal-doc

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

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

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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcereal-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.