How To Install libparsexp-ocaml on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libparsexp-ocaml
on Debian 11.
What is libparsexp-ocaml
libparsexp-ocaml is:
This library provides generic parsers for parsing S-expressions from strings or other medium.
The library is focused on performances but still provide full generic parsers that can be used with strings, bigstrings, lexing buffers, character streams or any other sources effortlessly.
It provides three different class of parsers:
- the normal parsers, producing [Sexp.t] or [Sexp.t list] values;
- the parsers with positions, building compact position sequences so that one can recover original positions in order to report properly located errors at little cost;
- the Concrete Syntax Tree parsers, produce values of type [Parsexp.Cst.t] which record the concrete layout of the s-expression syntax, including comments.
This library is portable and doesn’t provide IO functions. To read s-expressions from files or other external sources, you should use parsexp_io.
This package contains runtime files.
There are three methods to install libparsexp-ocaml
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 libparsexp-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 libparsexp-ocaml
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libparsexp-ocaml
Install libparsexp-ocaml Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libparsexp-ocaml
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libparsexp-ocaml
Install libparsexp-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libparsexp-ocaml
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libparsexp-ocaml
How To Uninstall libparsexp-ocaml on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libparsexp-ocaml
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libparsexp-ocaml
Uninstall libparsexp-ocaml And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libparsexp-ocaml
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libparsexp-ocaml
Remove libparsexp-ocaml Configurations and Data
To remove libparsexp-ocaml
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libparsexp-ocaml
Remove libparsexp-ocaml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libparsexp-ocaml
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libparsexp-ocaml
Dependencies
libparsexp-ocaml have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libparsexp-ocaml
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.