How To Install libxml2-utils on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxml2-utils on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libxml2-utils
libxml2-utils is:
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Package: libxml2-utils Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.9.10+dfsg-5 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: text Source: libxml2 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian XML/SGML Group [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 185 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libxml2 (>= 2.9.0) Filename: pool/main/libx/libxml2/libxml2-utils_2.9.10+dfsg-5_amd64.deb Size: 36940 MD5sum: eef0cdd73b3f97c8c604f8dcf490777c SHA1: 7a098c90d8534824acb8c1d2090d4b5e6e9cf3d7 SHA256: 85608055aeecbed9f59eccf49ebad936c5fb6dc3297b244ab5911ddbf1d923c8 Homepage: http://xmlsoft.org Description-en: XML utilities XML is a metalanguage to let you design your own markup language. A regular markup language defines a way to describe information in a certain class of documents (eg HTML). XML lets you define your own customized markup languages for many classes of document. It can do this because it’s written in SGML, the international standard metalanguage for markup languages.
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There are three methods to install libxml2-utils 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 libxml2-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libxml2-utils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libxml2-utils
Install libxml2-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libxml2-utils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libxml2-utils
Install libxml2-utils 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 libxml2-utils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libxml2-utils
How To Uninstall libxml2-utils on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libxml2-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libxml2-utils
Uninstall libxml2-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libxml2-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libxml2-utils
Remove libxml2-utils Configurations and Data
To remove libxml2-utils configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libxml2-utils
Remove libxml2-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libxml2-utils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libxml2-utils
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxml2-utils package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.