How To Install doclava-aosp on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install doclava-aosp on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is doclava-aosp
doclava-aosp is:
Key differences between Doclava and the standard doclet include:
- Refreshed look and feel, including search capabilities
- Embeds versioning information in the documentation
- Uses a templating engine for user customizations
- Throw build errors for things that can easily be caught, like @param tags that don’t match the parameter names.
- Ability to include snippets of code from real source code
- Federate documentation between multiple sites
- Ability to embed javadocs in a larger web page.
This package is a fork of Doclava by The Android Open Source Project with special features for generating the source files of the Android platform framework API stubs “android.jar”.
There are three methods to install doclava-aosp on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install doclava-aosp Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install doclava-aosp using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install doclava-aosp
Install doclava-aosp Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install doclava-aosp using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install doclava-aosp
Install doclava-aosp 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install doclava-aosp using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install doclava-aosp
How To Uninstall doclava-aosp on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the doclava-aosp package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove doclava-aosp
Uninstall doclava-aosp And Its Dependencies
To uninstall doclava-aosp and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove doclava-aosp
Remove doclava-aosp Configurations and Data
To remove doclava-aosp configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge doclava-aosp
Remove doclava-aosp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove doclava-aosp configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge doclava-aosp
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install doclava-aosp package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
