How to Install and Uninstall devhelp Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: January 24,2025

1. Install "devhelp" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install devhelp on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                devhelp
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "devhelp" package

Learn how to uninstall devhelp on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                devhelp
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the devhelp package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: devhelp
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.38.1-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/devel
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 204
Depends: python3:any, libamtk-5-0 (>= 5.0.0), libc6 (>= 2.4), libdevhelp-3-6 (>= 3.36.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.64), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.22), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 (>= 2.26)
Recommends: libgtk-3-doc, libglib2.0-doc, libpango1.0-doc
Breaks: devhelp-common (<< 3.21.91-1)
Replaces: devhelp-common (<< 3.21.91-1)
Filename: pool/universe/d/devhelp/devhelp_3.38.1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 60596
MD5sum: 38f1babe171336cfa4516037ec07e446
SHA1: 5790638304781554cf69e4be213189530d74c8ac
SHA256: e14e140d073729c7ed07e194d2f3b3d6e6037a285d707ab26a87860c5e75bee8
SHA512: c2dfb2c776704d7e8b242bf6376da7677b3e07e67c755fde6575002f6738b27cc0cdb0cbe66fc570e1921d82741f25165e823f109c7054bdac81174422c7a40e
Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Devhelp
Description-en: GNOME developers help program
Devhelp's primary goal is to be an API documentation browser for GNOME.
It is able to scan for .devhelp files generated automatically for
packages that use gtk-doc-tools to generate documentation for libraries
and programs.
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Devhelp provides some integration capabilities, which is used to allow
command-line searches, emacs integration and embedding in applications like
the Anjuta IDE.
Description-md5: ae983a3767d2a0a40ed35bb280300912