How To Install liblucene++-dev on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblucene++-dev on Ubuntu 18.04. liblucene++-dev is Development files for Lucene++

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblucene++-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is liblucene++-dev

liblucene++-dev is:

Lucene++ is an up to date C++ port of the popular Java Lucene library, a high-performance, full-featured text search engine.

This package contains development files.

There are three methods to install liblucene++-dev 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 liblucene++-dev Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liblucene++-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblucene++-dev

Install liblucene++-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liblucene++-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liblucene++-dev

Install liblucene++-dev 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 liblucene++-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblucene++-dev

How To Uninstall liblucene++-dev on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the liblucene++-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblucene++-dev

Uninstall liblucene++-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblucene++-dev

Remove liblucene++-dev Configurations and Data

To remove liblucene++-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblucene++-dev

Remove liblucene++-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liblucene++-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblucene++-dev

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Summary

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