How To Install libjq1 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libjq1 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libjq1
libjq1 is:
jq is like sed for JSON data – you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with text.
It is written in portable C, and it has minimal runtime dependencies.
jq can mangle the data format that you have into the one that you want with very little effort, and the program to do so is often shorter and simpler than you’d expect.
This package contains the shared library.
Package: libjq1 Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.6-1 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: universe/utils Source: jq Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 342 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libonig5 (>= 6.8.1) Filename: pool/universe/j/jq/libjq1_1.6-1_amd64.deb Size: 120660 MD5sum: a84340835c2d16780001011169bffcb2 SHA1: 8110fad2f3d28394c03bb325061bb67896e2d30c SHA256: cf75d15ed7112e5b334747dd63deb6b64a9f8ec8b2081ece2fc436271278ef59 Homepage: https://github.com/stedolan/jq Description-en: lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor - shared library jq is like sed for JSON data – you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with text.
It is written in portable C, and it has minimal runtime dependencies.
jq can mangle the data format that you have into the one that you want with very little effort, and the program to do so is often shorter and simpler than you’d expect.
This package contains the shared library.
There are three methods to install libjq1 on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libjq1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libjq1 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libjq1
Install libjq1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libjq1 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libjq1
Install libjq1 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 libjq1 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libjq1
How To Uninstall libjq1 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libjq1 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libjq1
Uninstall libjq1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libjq1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libjq1
Remove libjq1 Configurations and Data
To remove libjq1 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libjq1
Remove libjq1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libjq1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libjq1
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libjq1 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.