How To Install liboasis-ocaml on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liboasis-ocaml on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is liboasis-ocaml
liboasis-ocaml is:
OASIS generates a full configure, build and install system for your application. It starts with a simple
_oasisfile at the toplevel of your project and creates everything required.
It uses external tools like OCamlbuild and it can be considered as the glue between various subsystems that do the job. It should support the following tools:
- OCamlbuild
- OMake (todo)
- OCamlMakefile (todo),
- ocaml-autoconf (todo)
It also features a do-it-yourself command line invocation and an internal configure/install scheme. Libraries are managed through findlib. It has been tested on GNU Linux and Windows.
OASIS supports standard entry points and descriptions. It helps to integrates your libraries and software with third parties tools like GODI.
This package contains the shared runtime libraries and plugins.
There are three methods to install liboasis-ocaml 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 liboasis-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 liboasis-ocaml using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liboasis-ocaml
Install liboasis-ocaml Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liboasis-ocaml using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liboasis-ocaml
Install liboasis-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install liboasis-ocaml using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liboasis-ocaml
How To Uninstall liboasis-ocaml on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the liboasis-ocaml package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liboasis-ocaml
Uninstall liboasis-ocaml And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liboasis-ocaml and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liboasis-ocaml
Remove liboasis-ocaml Configurations and Data
To remove liboasis-ocaml configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liboasis-ocaml
Remove liboasis-ocaml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liboasis-ocaml configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liboasis-ocaml
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liboasis-ocaml package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
