How To Install libcf-ocaml on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcf-ocaml on Debian 9.
What is libcf-ocaml
libcf-ocaml is:
The pagoda core foundation OCaml library provides various modules. Some of the highlighted features include:
- Functional streams and stream processors (extended).
- Functional bootstrapped skew-binomial heap.
- Functional red-black binary tree (associative array).
- Functional sets and maps based on red-black binary tree.
- Functional real-time catenable deque.
- Functional LL(x) parsing using state-exception monad.
- Functional lazy deterministic finite automaton (DFA).
- Functional lexical analyzer (using lazy DFA and monadic parser).
- Functional substring list manipulation (message buffer chains).
- Gregorian calendar date manipulation.
- Standard time manipulation.
- System time in Temps Atomique Internationale (TAI).
- Unicode transcoding.
- Extended socket interface (supports IPv6 and UDP w/multicast).
- Universal resource identifier (URI) manipulation.
- I/O event multiplexing (with Unix.select).
This package contains only the shared runtime stub libraries.
There are three methods to install libcf-ocaml 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 libcf-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 libcf-ocaml using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcf-ocaml
Install libcf-ocaml Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcf-ocaml using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcf-ocaml
Install libcf-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libcf-ocaml using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcf-ocaml
How To Uninstall libcf-ocaml on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libcf-ocaml package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcf-ocaml
Uninstall libcf-ocaml And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcf-ocaml and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcf-ocaml
Remove libcf-ocaml Configurations and Data
To remove libcf-ocaml configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcf-ocaml
Remove libcf-ocaml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcf-ocaml configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcf-ocaml
Dependencies
libcf-ocaml have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcf-ocaml package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.