How To Install libhd-doc on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhd-doc
on Debian 11.
What is libhd-doc
libhd-doc is:
hwinfo is the hardware detection tool used in SuSE Linux.
In Debian Edu (Skolelinux) hwinfo has shown better results than discover when detecting mouse, keyboard and monitor.
hwinfo collects information about the hardware installed on a system. Among others, libhd contains information about cdrom, zip, floppy, disks and partitions, network card, graphics card, monitor, camera, mouse, sound, pppoe, isdn, modem, printer, scanner, bios, cpu, usb, memory and smp.
This package contains the documentation for the libhd21-dev package.
There are three methods to install libhd-doc
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libhd-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 libhd-doc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libhd-doc
Install libhd-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libhd-doc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libhd-doc
Install libhd-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 libhd-doc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libhd-doc
How To Uninstall libhd-doc on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libhd-doc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libhd-doc
Uninstall libhd-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libhd-doc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libhd-doc
Remove libhd-doc Configurations and Data
To remove libhd-doc
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libhd-doc
Remove libhd-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libhd-doc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libhd-doc
Dependencies
libhd-doc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhd-doc
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.