How To Install libfmt-ocaml on Debian 12

Learn how to install libfmt-ocaml on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libfmt-ocaml is OCaml Format pretty-printer combinators (runtime)

Introduction

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

What is libfmt-ocaml

libfmt-ocaml is:

Fmt exposes combinators to devise Format pretty-printing functions.

Fmt depends only on the OCaml standard library. The optional Fmt_tty library that allows one to setup formatters for terminal color output depends on the Unix library.

This package contains runtime files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libfmt-ocaml

Install libfmt-ocaml Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libfmt-ocaml

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

sudo aptitude -y install libfmt-ocaml

How To Uninstall libfmt-ocaml on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove libfmt-ocaml

Uninstall libfmt-ocaml And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libfmt-ocaml

Remove libfmt-ocaml Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libfmt-ocaml

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

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

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

Dependencies

libfmt-ocaml have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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