How To Install libhttp-cookies-perl on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhttp-cookies-perl on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libhttp-cookies-perl
libhttp-cookies-perl is:
This class is for objects that represent a “cookie jar” – that is, a database of all the HTTP cookies that a given LWP::UserAgent object knows about.
Cookies are a general mechanism which server side connections can use to both store and retrieve information on the client side of the connection. For more information about cookies refer to URL:http://curl.haxx.se/rfc/cookie_spec.html and URL:http://www.cookiecentral.com/. HTTP::Cookies also implements the new style cookies described in RFC 2965. The two variants of cookies are supposed to be able to coexist happily.
Instances of the class HTTP::Cookies are able to store a collection of Set-Cookie2: and Set-Cookie: headers and are able to use this information to initialize Cookie-headers in HTTP::Request objects. The state of a HTTP::Cookies object can be saved in and restored from files.
There are three methods to install libhttp-cookies-perl 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 libhttp-cookies-perl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libhttp-cookies-perl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libhttp-cookies-perl
Install libhttp-cookies-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libhttp-cookies-perl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libhttp-cookies-perl
Install libhttp-cookies-perl 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 libhttp-cookies-perl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libhttp-cookies-perl
How To Uninstall libhttp-cookies-perl on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libhttp-cookies-perl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libhttp-cookies-perl
Uninstall libhttp-cookies-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libhttp-cookies-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libhttp-cookies-perl
Remove libhttp-cookies-perl Configurations and Data
To remove libhttp-cookies-perl configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libhttp-cookies-perl
Remove libhttp-cookies-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libhttp-cookies-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libhttp-cookies-perl
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhttp-cookies-perl package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
