How To Install libpcre-ocaml on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpcre-ocaml on Debian 11.
What is libpcre-ocaml
libpcre-ocaml is:
This OCaml-library interfaces the PCRE (Perl-compatibility regular expressions) C library. it can be used for matching regular expressions which are written in Perl style.
Compared with the OCaml standard library “Str” module, this library:
- uses Perl style rather than Emacs one
- is reentrant and thus thread safe
- is faster (when compiled to native code is even faster than Perl regular expressions)
- returns data on which you can safely use destructive updates
- gives more “programming comfort” through a better API
This package contains only the shared runtime stub libraries.
There are three methods to install libpcre-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 libpcre-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 libpcre-ocaml using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libpcre-ocaml
Install libpcre-ocaml Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libpcre-ocaml using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libpcre-ocaml
Install libpcre-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 libpcre-ocaml using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libpcre-ocaml
How To Uninstall libpcre-ocaml on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libpcre-ocaml package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libpcre-ocaml
Uninstall libpcre-ocaml And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libpcre-ocaml and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpcre-ocaml
Remove libpcre-ocaml Configurations and Data
To remove libpcre-ocaml configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libpcre-ocaml
Remove libpcre-ocaml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libpcre-ocaml configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpcre-ocaml
Dependencies
libpcre-ocaml have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpcre-ocaml package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.