How To Install jq on Ubuntu 20.04

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install jq on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is jq

jq is:

jq is like sed for JSON data – you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with text.

It is written in portable C, and it has minimal runtime dependencies.

jq can mangle the data format that you have into the one that you want with very little effort, and the program to do so is often shorter and simpler than you’d expect. Description-md5: fd8d7d97b13012ce68c52772c1ce56aa

Package: jq Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.6-1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/utils Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 97 Depends: libjq1 (= 1.6-1), libc6 (>= 2.4) Filename: pool/universe/j/jq/jq_1.6-1_amd64.deb Size: 50232 MD5sum: 60b8bd183a497d79969199c5fa9378be SHA1: 31b6d15b332e31274e4fe0c7f47567a60f4d3be5 SHA256: 1e68dbce3f4f8fb9acd3afb1fd844d86a1392b5b408aed635a94cb94f8b28a56 Homepage: https://github.com/stedolan/jq Description-en: lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor jq is like sed for JSON data – you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with text.

It is written in portable C, and it has minimal runtime dependencies.

jq can mangle the data format that you have into the one that you want with very little effort, and the program to do so is often shorter and simpler than you’d expect. Description-md5: fd8d7d97b13012ce68c52772c1ce56aa

There are three ways to install jq 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 jq Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install jq

Install jq Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install jq

Install jq 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 jq using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install jq

How To Uninstall jq on Ubuntu 20.04

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

sudo apt-get remove jq

Uninstall jq And Its Dependencies

To uninstall jq and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove jq

Remove jq Configurations and Data

To remove jq configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge jq

Remove jq configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge jq

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install jq package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.