How To Install xen-doc on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xen-doc on Debian 11.
What is xen-doc
xen-doc is:
Documentation for the Xen hypervisor and surrounding software, including descriptions of the hypercall interfaces and of some of the library APIs.
You do not need this package for the primary manpages for the Xen control utilities, as those are in the xen-utils-common package.
There are three methods to install xen-doc 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 xen-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 xen-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xen-doc
Install xen-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install xen-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xen-doc
Install xen-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 xen-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xen-doc
How To Uninstall xen-doc on Debian 11
To uninstall only the xen-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xen-doc
Uninstall xen-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xen-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xen-doc
Remove xen-doc Configurations and Data
To remove xen-doc configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xen-doc
Remove xen-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xen-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xen-doc
Dependencies
xen-doc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xen-doc package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.