How To Install sgmls-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install sgmls-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. sgmls-doc is HTML documentation of libsgmls-perl and sgmlspl

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sgmls-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is sgmls-doc

sgmls-doc is:

libsgmls-perl and sgmlspl are tools for parsing the output from an SGML parser

This package contains the documentation in HTML format of the packages libsgmls-perl and sgmlspl.

There are three methods to install sgmls-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install sgmls-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 sgmls-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install sgmls-doc

Install sgmls-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install sgmls-doc

Install sgmls-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install sgmls-doc

How To Uninstall sgmls-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove sgmls-doc

Uninstall sgmls-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall sgmls-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sgmls-doc

Remove sgmls-doc Configurations and Data

To remove sgmls-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge sgmls-doc

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

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

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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sgmls-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.