How To Install halibut on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install halibut on Ubuntu 22.04. halibut is yet another free document preparation system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install halibut on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is halibut

halibut is:

This is yet another text formatting system, intended primarily for writing software documentation. It accepts a single source format and outputs any or all of text, HTML, Windows Help, man pages, GNU info, PostScript, or PDF. It has comprehensive indexing and cross-referencing support, and generates hyperlinks within output documents wherever possible. It supports Unicode, with the ability to fall back to an alternative representation when Unicode output is not available.

There are three methods to install halibut 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 halibut Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install halibut

Install halibut Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install halibut using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install halibut

Install halibut 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 halibut using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install halibut

How To Uninstall halibut on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the halibut package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove halibut

Uninstall halibut And Its Dependencies

To uninstall halibut and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove halibut

Remove halibut Configurations and Data

To remove halibut configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge halibut

Remove halibut configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge halibut

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install halibut package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.