How To Install synopsis on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install synopsis on Debian 9.
What is synopsis
synopsis is:
Synopsis is a multi-language source code introspection tool that provides a variety of representations for the parsed code to enable further processing such as documentation extraction, reverse engineering, and source-to-source translation.
Synopsis provides a framework of C++ and Python APIs to access these representations and allows Processor objects to be defined and composed into processing pipelines, making this framework very flexible and extensible.
There are three methods to install synopsis 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 synopsis Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install synopsis using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install synopsis
Install synopsis Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install synopsis using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install synopsis
Install synopsis 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 synopsis using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install synopsis
How To Uninstall synopsis on Debian 9
To uninstall only the synopsis package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove synopsis
Uninstall synopsis And Its Dependencies
To uninstall synopsis and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove synopsis
Remove synopsis Configurations and Data
To remove synopsis configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge synopsis
Remove synopsis configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove synopsis configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge synopsis
Dependencies
synopsis have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install synopsis package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.