How To Install yard-doc on Debian 12

Learn how to install yard-doc on Debian 12 with this tutorial. yard-doc is Ruby documentation tool - documentation

Introduction

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

What is yard-doc

yard-doc is:

YARD is a documentation generation tool for the Ruby programming language. It enables the user to generate consistent, usable documentation that can be exported to a number of formats very easily, and also supports extending for custom Ruby constructs such as custom class level definitions.

This package contains the documentation for YARD.

There are three methods to install yard-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 yard-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 yard-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install yard-doc

Install yard-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install yard-doc

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

sudo aptitude -y install yard-doc

How To Uninstall yard-doc on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove yard-doc

Uninstall yard-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove yard-doc

Remove yard-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge yard-doc

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

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

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

Dependencies

yard-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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