How To Install libfindlib-ocaml on Debian 10

Learn how to install libfindlib-ocaml on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libfindlib-ocaml is library for managing OCaml libraries (runtime)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libfindlib-ocaml on Debian 10.

What is `libfindlib-ocaml`

libfindlib-ocaml is:

The “findlib” OCaml library provides a scheme to manage reusable software components (packages), and includes tools that support this scheme. Packages are collections of OCaml modules for which metainformation can be stored. The packages are kept in the filesystem hierarchy, but with strict directory structure. The library contains functions to look the directory up that stores a package, to query metainformation about a package, and to retrieve dependency information about multiple packages.

This package contains files that are or may be needed at runtime by programs using findlib (META files and dynamically-loadable files).

There are three methods to install libfindlib-ocaml on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libfindlib-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 libfindlib-ocaml using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libfindlib-ocaml

Install libfindlib-ocaml Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libfindlib-ocaml

Install libfindlib-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 libfindlib-ocaml using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libfindlib-ocaml

How To Uninstall libfindlib-ocaml on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove libfindlib-ocaml

Uninstall libfindlib-ocaml And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libfindlib-ocaml and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libfindlib-ocaml

Remove libfindlib-ocaml Configurations and Data

To remove libfindlib-ocaml configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libfindlib-ocaml

Remove libfindlib-ocaml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libfindlib-ocaml

Dependencies

libfindlib-ocaml have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libfindlib-ocaml package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.