How To Install libcroco-tools on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcroco-tools on Debian 10.
What is libcroco-tools
libcroco-tools is:
Services provided by Libcroco
A parser module that provides o A SAC like API. SAC stands for Simple API for CSS. SAC is an event driven API which resembles SAX in the xml world. o A CSSOM like API. CSSOM stands for Cascading Style Sheet Object Model.
The libcroco parser implements the CSS Level 2 specification, the CSS forward compatibility rules and the CSS cascading rules.
A CSS2 selection engine Given an xml element node (that obviously comes from an xml document) and a stylesheet cascade, the Libcroco selection engine can evaluate the css selectors of the cascade and return the style properties associated to the xml element node.
Note that the xml manipulation toolkit used by the libcroco selection engine at the moment is libxml2.
This package contains csslint, a standalone utility based on libcroco that can be used for testing CSS correctness.
There are three methods to install libcroco-tools 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 libcroco-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcroco-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcroco-tools
Install libcroco-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcroco-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcroco-tools
Install libcroco-tools 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 libcroco-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcroco-tools
How To Uninstall libcroco-tools on Debian 10
To uninstall only the libcroco-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcroco-tools
Uninstall libcroco-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcroco-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcroco-tools
Remove libcroco-tools Configurations and Data
To remove libcroco-tools configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcroco-tools
Remove libcroco-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcroco-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcroco-tools
Dependencies
libcroco-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcroco-tools package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
