How To Install libghc-edison-core-prof on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install libghc-edison-core-prof on Debian 9. libghc-edison-core-prof is Haskell library of data structures; profiling libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libghc-edison-core-prof on Debian 9.

What is libghc-edison-core-prof

libghc-edison-core-prof is:

Some concrete implementations of the abstract interface of the Edison library for Haskell for use with ghc.

Edison is a library of purely function data structures for Haskell originally written by Chris Okasaki. Conceptually, it consists of two things:

  • A set of type classes defining data the following data structure abstractions: ‘sequences’, ‘collections’ and ‘associative collections’
  • Multiple concrete implementations of each of the abstractions

This package contains the concrete implementations.

There are three methods to install libghc-edison-core-prof 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 libghc-edison-core-prof Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libghc-edison-core-prof using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libghc-edison-core-prof

Install libghc-edison-core-prof Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libghc-edison-core-prof using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libghc-edison-core-prof

Install libghc-edison-core-prof 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 libghc-edison-core-prof using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libghc-edison-core-prof

How To Uninstall libghc-edison-core-prof on Debian 9

To uninstall only the libghc-edison-core-prof package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libghc-edison-core-prof

Uninstall libghc-edison-core-prof And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libghc-edison-core-prof and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libghc-edison-core-prof

Remove libghc-edison-core-prof Configurations and Data

To remove libghc-edison-core-prof configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libghc-edison-core-prof

Remove libghc-edison-core-prof configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libghc-edison-core-prof configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libghc-edison-core-prof

Dependencies

libghc-edison-core-prof have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libghc-edison-core-prof package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.