How To Install bibus on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bibus on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is bibus
bibus is:
Bibus is a bibliographic database which has been developed with LibreOffice/ OpenOffice.org in mind. It can directly insert citations and format the bibliographic index in an open OpenOffice.org Writer document. The main features are
- hierarchical organization of the references with user-defined keys
- designed for multiuser-environments (share databases between users)
- a search engine supporting live queries
- on-line PubMed access
- import of PubMed (Medline), EndNote/Refer, RIS and BibTeX records.
Bibus will use an SQLite-database by default for storage (via the SQLite3 module available in Python >2.5). But it also supports MySQL-databases. If you want to use a MySQL-database, make sure, that you have the python-mysqldb package installed.
There are three methods to install bibus on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install bibus Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bibus using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bibus
Install bibus Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bibus using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bibus
Install bibus 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 bibus using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bibus
How To Uninstall bibus on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the bibus package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bibus
Uninstall bibus And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bibus and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bibus
Remove bibus Configurations and Data
To remove bibus configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bibus
Remove bibus configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bibus configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bibus
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bibus package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
