How To Install rstcheck on Debian 12

Learn how to install rstcheck on Debian 12 with this tutorial. rstcheck is Validator for reStructuredText documents with code blocks (CLI tool)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rstcheck on Debian 12.

What is rstcheck

rstcheck is:

rstcheck validates the syntax of reStructuredText documents. Unlike other validators, it will also verify syntax correctness in nested code blocks for a variety of languages:

  • Bash shell scripts
  • Doctest
  • C (C99)
  • C++ (C++11)
  • JSON
  • XML
  • Python
  • reStructuredText

rstcheck can also validate Sphinx documentation files if Sphinx is installed.

This package installs the CLI tool.

There are three methods to install rstcheck 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 rstcheck Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install rstcheck

Install rstcheck Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install rstcheck using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install rstcheck

Install rstcheck 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 rstcheck using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rstcheck

How To Uninstall rstcheck on Debian 12

To uninstall only the rstcheck package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove rstcheck

Uninstall rstcheck And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rstcheck

Remove rstcheck Configurations and Data

To remove rstcheck configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge rstcheck

Remove rstcheck configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rstcheck

Dependencies

rstcheck have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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