How To Install libstarlink-pal-doc on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install libstarlink-pal-doc on Debian 9. libstarlink-pal-doc is Positional Astronomy Library (documentation)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libstarlink-pal-doc on Debian 9.

libstarlink-pal-doc is:

This library is a collection of code designed to aid in replacing the SLA library with code from NOVAS and ERFA.

Where possible the API is similar to the C SLA API except for the use of a “pal” prefix.

This package contains the HTML and PDF documentation.

There are three methods to install libstarlink-pal-doc 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.

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libstarlink-pal-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libstarlink-pal-doc

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libstarlink-pal-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libstarlink-pal-doc

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 libstarlink-pal-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libstarlink-pal-doc

To uninstall only the libstarlink-pal-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libstarlink-pal-doc

To uninstall libstarlink-pal-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libstarlink-pal-doc

To remove libstarlink-pal-doc configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libstarlink-pal-doc

We can use the following command to remove libstarlink-pal-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libstarlink-pal-doc

Dependencies

libstarlink-pal-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libstarlink-pal-doc package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.