How To Install waylandpp-doc on Debian 12

Learn how to install waylandpp-doc on Debian 12 with this tutorial. waylandpp-doc is wayland compositor documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install waylandpp-doc on Debian 12.

What is waylandpp-doc

waylandpp-doc is:

Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well as a C library implementation of that protocol. The compositor can be a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input devices, an X application, or a wayland client itself. The clients can be traditional applications, X servers (rootless or fullscreen) or other display servers.

This package ships documentation for the development libraries.

There are three methods to install waylandpp-doc on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

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

sudo apt-get -y install waylandpp-doc

Install waylandpp-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install waylandpp-doc

Install waylandpp-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 waylandpp-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install waylandpp-doc

How To Uninstall waylandpp-doc on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove waylandpp-doc

Uninstall waylandpp-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall waylandpp-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove waylandpp-doc

Remove waylandpp-doc Configurations and Data

To remove waylandpp-doc configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge waylandpp-doc

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

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

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

Dependencies

waylandpp-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install waylandpp-doc package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.