How To Install libreact-ocaml on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libreact-ocaml on Debian 9.
What is libreact-ocaml
libreact-ocaml is:
React is an OCaml module for functional reactive programming. It provides support to program with time varying values: applicative events and signals. React doesn’t define any primitive event or signal, this lets the client chooses the concrete timeline.
This package contains dynamically loadable plugins of React.
There are three methods to install libreact-ocaml 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 libreact-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 libreact-ocaml using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libreact-ocaml
Install libreact-ocaml Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libreact-ocaml using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libreact-ocaml
Install libreact-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 libreact-ocaml using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libreact-ocaml
How To Uninstall libreact-ocaml on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libreact-ocaml package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libreact-ocaml
Uninstall libreact-ocaml And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libreact-ocaml and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libreact-ocaml
Remove libreact-ocaml Configurations and Data
To remove libreact-ocaml configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libreact-ocaml
Remove libreact-ocaml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libreact-ocaml configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libreact-ocaml
Dependencies
libreact-ocaml have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libreact-ocaml package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.