How To Install rstcheck on Debian 12
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
.