How To Install libfmt-doc on Debian 12

Learn how to install libfmt-doc on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libfmt-doc is fast type-safe C++ formatting library – documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libfmt-doc on Debian 12.

What is libfmt-doc

libfmt-doc is:

This library provides fast, type-safe, small, C++11-aware replacement of (s)printf and related machinery. In some cases it’s noticeably faster than boost::format, boost::lexical_cast and even sprintf itself.

This package contains the documentation files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libfmt-doc

Install libfmt-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libfmt-doc

Install libfmt-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install libfmt-doc

How To Uninstall libfmt-doc on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove libfmt-doc

Uninstall libfmt-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libfmt-doc

Remove libfmt-doc Configurations and Data

To remove libfmt-doc configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libfmt-doc

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

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

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

Dependencies

libfmt-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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