How To Install libjs-text-encoding on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libjs-text-encoding on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libjs-text-encoding
libjs-text-encoding is:
Provides a polyfill for the Encoding Living Standard’s API for the Web, allowing encoding and decoding of textual data to and from Typed Array buffers for binary data in JavaScript.
There are three methods to install libjs-text-encoding 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 libjs-text-encoding Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libjs-text-encoding using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libjs-text-encoding
Install libjs-text-encoding Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libjs-text-encoding using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libjs-text-encoding
Install libjs-text-encoding 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 libjs-text-encoding using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libjs-text-encoding
How To Uninstall libjs-text-encoding on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libjs-text-encoding package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libjs-text-encoding
Uninstall libjs-text-encoding And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libjs-text-encoding and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libjs-text-encoding
Remove libjs-text-encoding Configurations and Data
To remove libjs-text-encoding configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libjs-text-encoding
Remove libjs-text-encoding configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libjs-text-encoding configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libjs-text-encoding
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libjs-text-encoding package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
