How To Install synopsis on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install synopsis on Ubuntu 18.04. synopsis is source-code Introspection Tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install synopsis on Ubuntu 18.04.

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 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 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04

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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove synopsis

Remove synopsis Configurations and Data

To remove synopsis configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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

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Summary

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