How To Install wml on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wml on Debian 11.
What is wml
wml is:
WML (Website META Language) is a free and extensible Webdesigner’s off-line HTML generation toolkit for Unix. WML consists of a control frontend driving up to nine backends in a sequential pass-oriented filtering scheme. Each backend provides one particular core language. For maximum power WML additionally ships with a well-suited set of include files which provide higher-level features build on top of the backends core languages. While not trivial and idiot proof WML provides most of the core features real hackers always wanted for HTML generation.
iselect is needed for wmd, the WML Documentation browser. The remaining recommended or suggested packages are needed by optional passes or libraries.
There are three methods to install wml on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install wml Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wml using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wml
Install wml Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wml using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wml
Install wml 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 wml using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wml
How To Uninstall wml on Debian 11
To uninstall only the wml package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wml
Uninstall wml And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wml and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wml
Remove wml Configurations and Data
To remove wml configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wml
Remove wml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wml configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wml
Dependencies
wml have the following dependencies:
- eperl
- libclass-xsaccessor-perl
- libcarp-always-perl
- libfile-which-perl
- libimage-size-perl
- liblist-moreutils-perl
- libpath-tiny-perl
- libterm-readkey-perl
- m4
- mp4h
- slice
- perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wml package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.