How To Install libghc-iospec-dev on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install libghc-iospec-dev on Debian 9. libghc-iospec-dev is Pure specification of the IO monad

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libghc-iospec-dev on Debian 9.

What is libghc-iospec-dev

libghc-iospec-dev is:

It consists of several modules, that give a pure specification of functions in the IO monad:

Test.IOSpec.Fork: a pure specification of forkIO.

Test.IOSpec.IORef: a pure specification of most functions that create and manipulate on IORefs.

Test.IOSpec.MVar: a pure specification of most functions that create and manipulate and MVars.

Test.IOSpec.STM: a pure specification of atomically and the STM monad.

Test.IOSpec.Teletype: a pure specification of getChar, putChar, and several related Prelude functions.

Besides these modules containing the specifications, there are a few other important modules:

Test.IOSpec.Types: defines the IOSpec type and several amenities.

Test.IOSpec.VirtualMachine: defines a virtual machine on which to execute pure specifications.

Test.IOSpec.Surrogate: a drop-in replacement for the other modules. Import this and recompile your code once you’ve finished testing and debugging.

There are several well-documented examples included with the source distribution.

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-iospec-dev 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-iospec-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-iospec-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

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

Install libghc-iospec-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libghc-iospec-dev

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

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install libghc-iospec-dev

How To Uninstall libghc-iospec-dev on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove libghc-iospec-dev

Uninstall libghc-iospec-dev And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove libghc-iospec-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libghc-iospec-dev configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

libghc-iospec-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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