How To Install asciidoctor-doc on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install asciidoctor-doc on Ubuntu 22.04. asciidoctor-doc is AsciiDoc to HTML rendering for Ruby (documentation)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install asciidoctor-doc on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is asciidoctor-doc

asciidoctor-doc is:

Asciidoctor is a pure Ruby processor for converting AsciiDoc source files and strings into HTML 5, DocBook 4.5, DocBook 5.0 and other formats.

This package contains the documentation for asciidoctor.

There are three methods to install asciidoctor-doc 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 asciidoctor-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install asciidoctor-doc

Install asciidoctor-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install asciidoctor-doc

Install asciidoctor-doc 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 asciidoctor-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install asciidoctor-doc

How To Uninstall asciidoctor-doc on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the asciidoctor-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove asciidoctor-doc

Uninstall asciidoctor-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove asciidoctor-doc

Remove asciidoctor-doc Configurations and Data

To remove asciidoctor-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge asciidoctor-doc

Remove asciidoctor-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge asciidoctor-doc

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Summary

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