How To Install libghc-gitit-dev on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libghc-gitit-dev on Ubuntu 18.04. libghc-gitit-dev is Wiki engine backed by a git or darcs filestore

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libghc-gitit-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is libghc-gitit-dev

libghc-gitit-dev is:

Gitit is a wiki backed by a git or darcs filestore. Pages and uploaded files can be modified either directly via the VCS’s command-line tools or through the wiki’s web interface. Pandoc is used for markup processing, so pages may be written in (extended) markdown, reStructuredText, LaTeX, HTML, or literate Haskell, and exported in ten different formats, including LaTeX, ConTeXt, DocBook, RTF, OpenOffice ODT, and MediaWiki markup.

Other features include

  • plugins: dynamically loaded page transformations written in Haskell;
  • categories;
  • support for Unicode;
  • TeX math using texmath;
  • syntax highlighting of source code files and code snippets using highlighting-kate;
  • wiki pages can be viewed as slide shows;
  • caching;
  • Atom feeds (site-wide and per-page);
  • a library, Network.Gitit, that makes it simple to include a gitit wiki in any happstack application;
  • pages can be written directly in literate Haskell.

This package provides a library for the Haskell programming language. See http://www.haskell.org/ for more information on Haskell.

There are three methods to install libghc-gitit-dev on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-gitit-dev 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-gitit-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libghc-gitit-dev

Install libghc-gitit-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libghc-gitit-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libghc-gitit-dev

Install libghc-gitit-dev 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libghc-gitit-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libghc-gitit-dev

How To Uninstall libghc-gitit-dev on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the libghc-gitit-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libghc-gitit-dev

Uninstall libghc-gitit-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libghc-gitit-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libghc-gitit-dev

Remove libghc-gitit-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libghc-gitit-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libghc-gitit-dev

Remove libghc-gitit-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libghc-gitit-dev

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libghc-gitit-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.