How To Install libocamlnet-ocaml-dev on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libocamlnet-ocaml-dev on Debian 9.
What is libocamlnet-ocaml-dev
libocamlnet-ocaml-dev 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 development stuff you need to use the core Ocamlnet libraries in your programs. The following libraries are packaged separately: SSL-related libraries (libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml-dev), GTK-related libraries (libocamlnet-gtk2-ocaml-dev), nethttpd (libnethttpd-ocaml-dev). The netcgi2 Apache connector is also part of this package; to run applications built for that connector you will need the mod_netcgi_apache Apache module (libapache2-mod-ocamlnet).
There are three methods to install libocamlnet-ocaml-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 libocamlnet-ocaml-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 libocamlnet-ocaml-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libocamlnet-ocaml-dev
Install libocamlnet-ocaml-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libocamlnet-ocaml-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libocamlnet-ocaml-dev
Install libocamlnet-ocaml-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 libocamlnet-ocaml-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libocamlnet-ocaml-dev
How To Uninstall libocamlnet-ocaml-dev on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libocamlnet-ocaml-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libocamlnet-ocaml-dev
Uninstall libocamlnet-ocaml-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libocamlnet-ocaml-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libocamlnet-ocaml-dev
Remove libocamlnet-ocaml-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libocamlnet-ocaml-dev configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libocamlnet-ocaml-dev
Remove libocamlnet-ocaml-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libocamlnet-ocaml-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libocamlnet-ocaml-dev
Dependencies
libocamlnet-ocaml-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libocamlnet-ocaml-dev package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.