How To Install hoogle on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hoogle
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is hoogle
hoogle is:
Hoogle is a Haskell API search engine, which allows you to search many standard Haskell libraries by either function name, or by approximate type signature.
This package contains the hoogle command.
There are three methods to install hoogle
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 hoogle Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install hoogle
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hoogle
Install hoogle Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hoogle
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hoogle
Install hoogle 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 hoogle
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hoogle
How To Uninstall hoogle on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the hoogle
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hoogle
Uninstall hoogle And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hoogle
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hoogle
Remove hoogle Configurations and Data
To remove hoogle
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hoogle
Remove hoogle configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hoogle
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hoogle
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hoogle
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.