How To Install qt5-doc on Debian 10

Learn how to install qt5-doc on Debian 10 with this tutorial. qt5-doc is Qt 5 API Documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install qt5-doc on Debian 10.

What is qt5-doc

qt5-doc is:

Qt is a cross-platform C++ application framework. Qt’s primary feature is its rich set of widgets that provide standard GUI functionality.

Qt Documentation contains the offline documentation for Qt 5. This package contains the complete Qt 5 API documentation (Qt’s help format).

The documentation is provided in the Qt’s help format and manpage format; the Qt’s help format version can be viewed in conjunction with the Qt Assistant found in the qttools5-dev-tools package.

There are three methods to install qt5-doc on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install qt5-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install qt5-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install qt5-doc

Install qt5-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install qt5-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install qt5-doc

Install qt5-doc 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 qt5-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install qt5-doc

How To Uninstall qt5-doc on Debian 10

To uninstall only the qt5-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove qt5-doc

Uninstall qt5-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall qt5-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove qt5-doc

Remove qt5-doc Configurations and Data

To remove qt5-doc configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge qt5-doc

Remove qt5-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove qt5-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qt5-doc

Dependencies

qt5-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install qt5-doc package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.