How To Install libptime-ocaml-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install libptime-ocaml-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libptime-ocaml-dev is POSIX time for OCaml (development)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libptime-ocaml-dev on Debian 12.

What is libptime-ocaml-dev

libptime-ocaml-dev is:

Ptime has platform independent POSIX time support in pure OCaml. It provides a type to represent a well-defined range of POSIX timestamps with picosecond precision, conversion with date-time values, conversion with RFC 3339 timestamps and pretty printing to a human-readable, locale-independent representation.

This package contains development files.

There are three methods to install libptime-ocaml-dev on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libptime-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 libptime-ocaml-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libptime-ocaml-dev

Install libptime-ocaml-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libptime-ocaml-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libptime-ocaml-dev

Install libptime-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 libptime-ocaml-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libptime-ocaml-dev

How To Uninstall libptime-ocaml-dev on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libptime-ocaml-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libptime-ocaml-dev

Uninstall libptime-ocaml-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libptime-ocaml-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libptime-ocaml-dev

Remove libptime-ocaml-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libptime-ocaml-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libptime-ocaml-dev

Remove libptime-ocaml-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libptime-ocaml-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libptime-ocaml-dev

Dependencies

libptime-ocaml-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libptime-ocaml-dev package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.