How To Install liblatex-tom-perl on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblatex-tom-perl on Ubuntu 18.04. liblatex-tom-perl is module for parsing, analyzing and manipulating LaTeX documents

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblatex-tom-perl on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is liblatex-tom-perl

liblatex-tom-perl is:

The LaTeX::TOM module provides a parser which parses and interprets (though not fully) LaTeX documents and returns a tree-based representation of what it finds. This tree is a LaTeX::TOM::Tree. The tree contains LaTeX::TOM::Node nodes.

This module should be especially useful to anyone who wants to do processing of LaTeX documents that requires extraction of plain-text information, or altering of the plain-text components (or alternatively, the math-text components).

There are three methods to install liblatex-tom-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 liblatex-tom-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 liblatex-tom-perl using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblatex-tom-perl

Install liblatex-tom-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liblatex-tom-perl using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liblatex-tom-perl

Install liblatex-tom-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 liblatex-tom-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblatex-tom-perl

How To Uninstall liblatex-tom-perl on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the liblatex-tom-perl package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblatex-tom-perl

Uninstall liblatex-tom-perl And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblatex-tom-perl

Remove liblatex-tom-perl Configurations and Data

To remove liblatex-tom-perl configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblatex-tom-perl

Remove liblatex-tom-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liblatex-tom-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblatex-tom-perl

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Summary

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