How To Install tclxml on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install tclxml on Debian 9. tclxml is Tcl library for XML parsing

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tclxml on Debian 9.

What is tclxml

tclxml is:

TclXML provides event-based parsing of XML documents. The application may register callback scripts for certain document features, and when the parser encounters those features while parsing the document the callback is evaluated.

There are three methods to install tclxml on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install tclxml Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tclxml

Install tclxml Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tclxml

Install tclxml 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 tclxml using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tclxml

How To Uninstall tclxml on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove tclxml

Uninstall tclxml And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tclxml and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tclxml

Remove tclxml Configurations and Data

To remove tclxml configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tclxml

Remove tclxml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tclxml

Dependencies

tclxml have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tclxml package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.