How To Install mingw-ocaml on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw-ocaml
on Debian 9.
What is mingw-ocaml
mingw-ocaml is:
This is a transitional dummy package to install ocaml-mingw-w64. It can safely be removed.
There are three methods to install mingw-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 mingw-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 mingw-ocaml
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mingw-ocaml
Install mingw-ocaml Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mingw-ocaml
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mingw-ocaml
Install mingw-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 mingw-ocaml
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mingw-ocaml
How To Uninstall mingw-ocaml on Debian 9
To uninstall only the mingw-ocaml
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mingw-ocaml
Uninstall mingw-ocaml And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mingw-ocaml
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mingw-ocaml
Remove mingw-ocaml Configurations and Data
To remove mingw-ocaml
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mingw-ocaml
Remove mingw-ocaml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mingw-ocaml
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mingw-ocaml
Dependencies
mingw-ocaml have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw-ocaml
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.