How To Install rust-doc on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rust-doc on Debian 9.
What is rust-doc
rust-doc is:
Rust is a curly-brace, block-structured expression language. It visually resembles the C language family, but differs significantly in syntactic and semantic details. Its design is oriented toward concerns of “programming in the large”, that is, of creating and maintaining boundaries - both abstract and operational - that preserve large-system integrity, availability and concurrency.
It supports a mixture of imperative procedural, concurrent actor, object-oriented and pure functional styles. Rust also supports generic programming and meta-programming, in both static and dynamic styles.
This package contains the Rust tutorial, language reference and standard library documentation.
There are three methods to install rust-doc on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install rust-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 rust-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rust-doc
Install rust-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rust-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rust-doc
Install rust-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 rust-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rust-doc
How To Uninstall rust-doc on Debian 9
To uninstall only the rust-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rust-doc
Uninstall rust-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rust-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rust-doc
Remove rust-doc Configurations and Data
To remove rust-doc configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rust-doc
Remove rust-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rust-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rust-doc
Dependencies
rust-doc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rust-doc package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.