How To Install manpages-fr-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install manpages-fr-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. manpages-fr-dev is French development manpages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install manpages-fr-dev on Debian 12.

What is manpages-fr-dev

manpages-fr-dev is:

This package contains the Linux development manual pages translated into French.

The following sections are included:

  • 2 = Linux system calls.
  • 3 = Libc calls (note that a more comprehensive source of information may be found in one of the libc-doc packages).

The English package manpages-dev contains additional manual pages which have not been translated yet.

There are three methods to install manpages-fr-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 manpages-fr-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 manpages-fr-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install manpages-fr-dev

Install manpages-fr-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install manpages-fr-dev

Install manpages-fr-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 manpages-fr-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install manpages-fr-dev

How To Uninstall manpages-fr-dev on Debian 12

To uninstall only the manpages-fr-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove manpages-fr-dev

Uninstall manpages-fr-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove manpages-fr-dev

Remove manpages-fr-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge manpages-fr-dev

Remove manpages-fr-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge manpages-fr-dev

Dependencies

manpages-fr-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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