How To Install libhikaricp-java on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libhikaricp-java on Ubuntu 18.04. libhikaricp-java is high-performance JDBC connection pool library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libhikaricp-java on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is libhikaricp-java

libhikaricp-java is:

HikariCP is a high performance, low overhead JDBC connection pool library for Java. It aims at being simple, robust, reliable and extremely fast. HikariCP comes with sane defaults that perform well in most deployments without additional tweaking.

There are three methods to install libhikaricp-java 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 libhikaricp-java Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libhikaricp-java

Install libhikaricp-java Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libhikaricp-java

Install libhikaricp-java 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 libhikaricp-java using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libhikaricp-java

How To Uninstall libhikaricp-java on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the libhikaricp-java package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libhikaricp-java

Uninstall libhikaricp-java And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libhikaricp-java

Remove libhikaricp-java Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libhikaricp-java

Remove libhikaricp-java configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libhikaricp-java

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Summary

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