How To Install galax on Debian 10

Learn how to install galax on Debian 10 with this tutorial. galax is XQuery implementation with static typing - command line front-ends

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install galax on Debian 10.

What is galax

galax is:

Galax is an implementation of XQuery, the W3C XML Query Language.

Galax implements XQuery 1.0 as specified by the W3C, as well as XPath 2.0, which is subset of XQuery 1.0.

Galax is a Schema-aware implementation of XQuery and supports static typing. Also thanks to that, Galax is a really fast implementation of the language.

Galax supports some advanced XQuery features, such as XML Schema validation, XML updates, XQuery optimization and projection, applications of XQuery to Web services.

This package contains the command line front-ends to evaluate XQuery queries and to validate XML documents against XML Schemas.

There are three methods to install galax on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install galax Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install galax

Install galax Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install galax

Install galax 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install galax

How To Uninstall galax on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove galax

Uninstall galax And Its Dependencies

To uninstall galax and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove galax

Remove galax Configurations and Data

To remove galax configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge galax

Remove galax configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge galax

Dependencies

galax have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install galax package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.