How To Install liblouisxml-bin on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblouisxml-bin
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is liblouisxml-bin
liblouisxml-bin is:
Liblouisxml translates files in the computer lingua franca xml format into properly transcribed braille. This includes translation into grade two, if desired, mathematical codes, etc. It also includes formatting according to a built-in style sheet which can be modified by the user.
This package contains xml2brl which translates an xml or text file into an embosser-ready braille file, and msword2brl which translates an ms-word file into an embosser-ready braille file.
In combination with ooo2dbk, it can also translate OpenOffice.org 1 documents.
There are three methods to install liblouisxml-bin
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install liblouisxml-bin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liblouisxml-bin
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblouisxml-bin
Install liblouisxml-bin Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblouisxml-bin
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblouisxml-bin
Install liblouisxml-bin 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 liblouisxml-bin
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblouisxml-bin
How To Uninstall liblouisxml-bin on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the liblouisxml-bin
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblouisxml-bin
Uninstall liblouisxml-bin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblouisxml-bin
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblouisxml-bin
Remove liblouisxml-bin Configurations and Data
To remove liblouisxml-bin
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblouisxml-bin
Remove liblouisxml-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblouisxml-bin
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblouisxml-bin
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblouisxml-bin
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.