How To Install synopsis-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install synopsis-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is synopsis-doc
synopsis-doc 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.
This package contains the Synopsis Developer’s Guide and the Synopsis Tutorial.
There are three methods to install synopsis-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 synopsis-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 synopsis-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install synopsis-doc
Install synopsis-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install synopsis-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install synopsis-doc
Install synopsis-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 synopsis-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install synopsis-doc
How To Uninstall synopsis-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the synopsis-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove synopsis-doc
Uninstall synopsis-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall synopsis-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove synopsis-doc
Remove synopsis-doc Configurations and Data
To remove synopsis-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge synopsis-doc
Remove synopsis-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove synopsis-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge synopsis-doc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install synopsis-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
