How To Install libocamlnet-ocaml-bin on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libocamlnet-ocaml-bin on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libocamlnet-ocaml-bin
libocamlnet-ocaml-bin is:
Ocamlnet is a collection of OCaml libraries focusing focus on application-level Internet protocols and conventions.
Ocamlnet consists of the following libraries:
- netstring: processing of strings that occur in network context
- netcgi2: portable web applications
- nethttpd: is a web server component (HTTP server implementation)
- netplex: generic server framework
- rpc: OncRPC implementation
- netclient: clients for HTTP, FTP, and Telnet
- equeue: event queue used for many protocol implementations
- shell: external commands invocation
- netshm: shared memory for IPC purposes
- netsys: bindings for system functions
- smtp and pop: two further client implementations
A number of ideas and concepts are used throughout the libraries:
- netchannels are a way to abstract sequential I/O channels
- event queues provided by equeue and unixqueue make asynchronous protocol interpreters possible
This package contains the binaries ocamlrpcgen (a helper for creating RPC stubs) and netplex-admin (generic administration tool for netplex systems).
There are three methods to install libocamlnet-ocaml-bin 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 libocamlnet-ocaml-bin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libocamlnet-ocaml-bin using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libocamlnet-ocaml-bin
Install libocamlnet-ocaml-bin Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libocamlnet-ocaml-bin using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libocamlnet-ocaml-bin
Install libocamlnet-ocaml-bin 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 libocamlnet-ocaml-bin using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libocamlnet-ocaml-bin
How To Uninstall libocamlnet-ocaml-bin on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libocamlnet-ocaml-bin package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libocamlnet-ocaml-bin
Uninstall libocamlnet-ocaml-bin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libocamlnet-ocaml-bin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libocamlnet-ocaml-bin
Remove libocamlnet-ocaml-bin Configurations and Data
To remove libocamlnet-ocaml-bin configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libocamlnet-ocaml-bin
Remove libocamlnet-ocaml-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libocamlnet-ocaml-bin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libocamlnet-ocaml-bin
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libocamlnet-ocaml-bin package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
