How To Install libccss-tools on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libccss-tools on Ubuntu 18.04. libccss-tools is simple api for CSS stylesheets (utilities)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libccss-tools on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is libccss-tools

libccss-tools is:

Libccss offers a simple API to

  • Parse CSS stylesheets.
  • Query for style configurations on a user-provided document representation.
  • Draw query results onto cairo surfaces

This package contains some utilities.

  • ccss-stylesheet-to-gtkrc: load CSS files and dump the resulting for debugging multi-file stylesheets

There are three methods to install libccss-tools 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 libccss-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libccss-tools

Install libccss-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libccss-tools

Install libccss-tools 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 libccss-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libccss-tools

How To Uninstall libccss-tools on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the libccss-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libccss-tools

Uninstall libccss-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libccss-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libccss-tools

Remove libccss-tools Configurations and Data

To remove libccss-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libccss-tools

Remove libccss-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libccss-tools

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libccss-tools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.