How To Install doxygen-gui on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install doxygen-gui on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is doxygen-gui
doxygen-gui is:
Doxygen is a documentation system for C, C++, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL and to some extent PHP, C#, and D. It can generate an on-line class browser (in HTML) and/or an off-line reference manual (in LaTeX) from a set of documented source files. There is also support for generating man pages and for converting the generated output into Postscript, hyperlinked PDF or compressed HTML. The documentation is extracted directly from the sources.
This package contains doxywizard, a GUI configuration tool for doxygen.
There are three methods to install doxygen-gui 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 doxygen-gui Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install doxygen-gui using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install doxygen-gui
Install doxygen-gui Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install doxygen-gui using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install doxygen-gui
Install doxygen-gui 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 doxygen-gui using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install doxygen-gui
How To Uninstall doxygen-gui on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the doxygen-gui package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove doxygen-gui
Uninstall doxygen-gui And Its Dependencies
To uninstall doxygen-gui and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove doxygen-gui
Remove doxygen-gui Configurations and Data
To remove doxygen-gui configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge doxygen-gui
Remove doxygen-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove doxygen-gui configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge doxygen-gui
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install doxygen-gui package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
