How To Install libcroco3 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcroco3 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libcroco3
libcroco3 is:
Services provided by Libcroco
A parser module that provides o A SAC like API. SAC stands for Simple API for CSS. SAC is an event driven API which resembles SAX in the xml world. o A CSSOM like API. CSSOM stands for Cascading Style Sheet Object Model.
The libcroco parser implements the CSS Level 2 specification, the CSS forward compatibility rules and the CSS cascading rules.
A CSS2 selection engine Given an xml element node (that obviously comes from an xml document) and a stylesheet cascade, the Libcroco selection engine can evaluate the css selectors of the cascade and return the style properties associated to the xml element node.
Note that the xml manipulation toolkit used by the libcroco selection engine at the moment is libxml2.
This package contains the shared libraries.
There are three methods to install libcroco3 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 libcroco3 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcroco3 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcroco3
Install libcroco3 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcroco3 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcroco3
Install libcroco3 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 libcroco3 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcroco3
How To Uninstall libcroco3 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libcroco3 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcroco3
Uninstall libcroco3 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcroco3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcroco3
Remove libcroco3 Configurations and Data
To remove libcroco3 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcroco3
Remove libcroco3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcroco3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcroco3
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcroco3 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
