How To Install fop on Debian 10
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.