How To Install publican on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install publican on Debian 12.
What is publican
publican is:
Publican is a DocBook XML publication system:
- Publican ensures your document is valid,
- Publican works to ensure your document is up to publishable standard,
- Publican supports skinning to allow you to create your own presentation rules and look, overriding many parts of the default style to meet your publishing needs,
- Publican automates producing documentation in several formats: plain text, several variations of HTML output and PDF, hiding boring details.
There are three methods to install publican 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 publican Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install publican using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install publican
Install publican Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install publican using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install publican
Install publican 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 publican using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install publican
How To Uninstall publican on Debian 12
To uninstall only the publican package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove publican
Uninstall publican And Its Dependencies
To uninstall publican and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove publican
Remove publican Configurations and Data
To remove publican configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge publican
Remove publican configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove publican configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge publican
Dependencies
publican have the following dependencies:
- perl
- fonts-font-awesome
- docbook-xml
- docbook5-xml
- docbook-xsl
- docbook-xsl-ns
- fop
- gettext
- libarchive-zip-perl
- libconfig-simple-perl
- libdatetime-format-dateparse-perl
- libdatetime-perl
- libdbd-sqlite3-perl
- libdbi-perl
- libfile-copy-recursive-perl
- libfile-find-rule-perl
- libfile-homedir-perl
- libfile-inplace-perl
- libfile-pushd-perl
- libfile-slurp-perl
- libfile-which-perl
- libhtml-format-perl
- libhtml-formattext-withlinks-perl
- libhtml-formattext-withlinks-andtables-perl
- libhtml-template-perl
- libhtml-tree-perl
- libhtml-wikiconverter-perl
- libhtml-wikiconverter-markdown-perl
- libimage-magick-perl
- libimage-size-perl
- libio-string-perl
- liblingua-en-fathom-perl
- liblist-moreutils-perl
- liblocale-codes-perl
- liblocale-maketext-gettext-perl
- liblocale-maketext-lexicon-perl
- liblocale-msgfmt-perl
- liblocale-po-perl
- libsort-versions-perl
- libstring-similarity-perl
- libsyntax-highlight-engine-kate-perl
- libtemplate-perl
- libtext-csv-xs-perl
- libversion-perl
- libxml-libxml-perl
- libxml-libxslt-perl
- libxml-simple-perl
- libxml-treebuilder-perl
- librsvg2-bin
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install publican package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
