How To Install fop-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fop-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is fop-doc
fop-doc 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 documentation.
There are three methods to install fop-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fop-doc 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-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fop-doc
Install fop-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fop-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fop-doc
Install fop-doc 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 fop-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fop-doc
How To Uninstall fop-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the fop-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fop-doc
Uninstall fop-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fop-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fop-doc
Remove fop-doc Configurations and Data
To remove fop-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fop-doc
Remove fop-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fop-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fop-doc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fop-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
