How To Install doxygen2man on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install doxygen2man
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is doxygen2man
doxygen2man is:
This is a tool to generate API manpages from a doxygen-annotated header files. First run doxygen on the header files and then run this program against the main XML file it created and the directory containing the ancilliary files. It will then output a lot of *.3 man page files which you can then ship with your library.
There are three methods to install doxygen2man
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install doxygen2man Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install doxygen2man
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install doxygen2man
Install doxygen2man Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install doxygen2man
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install doxygen2man
Install doxygen2man 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 doxygen2man
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install doxygen2man
How To Uninstall doxygen2man on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the doxygen2man
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove doxygen2man
Uninstall doxygen2man And Its Dependencies
To uninstall doxygen2man
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove doxygen2man
Remove doxygen2man Configurations and Data
To remove doxygen2man
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge doxygen2man
Remove doxygen2man configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove doxygen2man
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge doxygen2man
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install doxygen2man
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.