How To Install fop on Debian 10

Learn how to install fop on Debian 10 with this tutorial. fop is XML formatter driven by XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO.) - app

Introduction

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

What is fop

fop is:

FOP is a Java application that reads a formatting object tree and then turns it into a wide variety of output presentations (including AFP, PCL, PDF, PNG, PostScript, RTF, TIFF, and plain text), or displays the result on-screen.

The formatting object tree can be in the form of an XML document (output by an XSLT engine like xalan) or can be passed in memory as a DOM Document or (in the case of xalan) SAX events.

This package contains the fop command line tool

There are three methods to install fop 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 fop Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install fop

Install fop Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fop

Install fop 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 fop using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fop

How To Uninstall fop on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove fop

Uninstall fop And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fop

Remove fop Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge fop

Remove fop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fop

Dependencies

fop have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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