How To Install ocaml-man on Debian 12

Learn how to install ocaml-man on Debian 12 with this tutorial. ocaml-man is OCaml interpreter and standard libraries (lib manpages)

Introduction

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

What is ocaml-man

ocaml-man is:

Objective (OCaml) is an implementation of the ML language, based on the Caml Light dialect extended with a complete class-based object system and a powerful module system in the style of Standard ML.

This package contains ocamldoc-generated documentation about libraries provided by OCaml.

There are three methods to install ocaml-man 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 ocaml-man Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ocaml-man

Install ocaml-man Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ocaml-man

Install ocaml-man 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 ocaml-man using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ocaml-man

How To Uninstall ocaml-man on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove ocaml-man

Uninstall ocaml-man And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ocaml-man

Remove ocaml-man Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ocaml-man

Remove ocaml-man configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ocaml-man

Dependencies

ocaml-man have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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