How To Install tclx8.4-doc on Debian 10

Learn how to install tclx8.4-doc on Debian 10 with this tutorial. tclx8.4-doc is Extended Tcl (TclX) - manpages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tclx8.4-doc on Debian 10.

What is tclx8.4-doc

tclx8.4-doc is:

Extended Tcl (TclX), is a set of extensions to Tcl, the Tool Command Language invented by Dr. John Ousterhout. Tcl is a powerful, yet simple embeddable programming language. Extended Tcl is oriented towards system programming tasks and large application development.

TclX provides additional interfaces to the operating system, and adds many new programming constructs, text manipulation tools, and debugging tools.

This package includes the TclX man pages.

There are three methods to install tclx8.4-doc on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install tclx8.4-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 tclx8.4-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tclx8.4-doc

Install tclx8.4-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tclx8.4-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tclx8.4-doc

Install tclx8.4-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 tclx8.4-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tclx8.4-doc

How To Uninstall tclx8.4-doc on Debian 10

To uninstall only the tclx8.4-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tclx8.4-doc

Uninstall tclx8.4-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tclx8.4-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tclx8.4-doc

Remove tclx8.4-doc Configurations and Data

To remove tclx8.4-doc configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tclx8.4-doc

Remove tclx8.4-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tclx8.4-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tclx8.4-doc

Dependencies

tclx8.4-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tclx8.4-doc package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.