How To Install liblucy-perl on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblucy-perl on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is liblucy-perl
liblucy-perl is:
The Apache Lucy search engine library delivers high-performance, modular full-text search.
Features:
- Extremely fast. A single machine can handle millions of documents.
- Scalable to multiple machines.
- Incremental indexing (addition/deletion of documents to/from an existing index).
- Configurable near-real-time index updates.
- Unicode support.
- Support for boolean operators AND, OR, and AND NOT; parenthetical groupings; prepended +plus and -minus.
- Algorithmic selection of relevant excerpts and highlighting of search terms within excerpts.
- Highly customizable query and indexing APIs.
- Customizable sorting.
- Phrase matching.
- Stemming.
- Stoplists.
There are three methods to install liblucy-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 liblucy-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 liblucy-perl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblucy-perl
Install liblucy-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblucy-perl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblucy-perl
Install liblucy-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 liblucy-perl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblucy-perl
How To Uninstall liblucy-perl on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the liblucy-perl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblucy-perl
Uninstall liblucy-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblucy-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblucy-perl
Remove liblucy-perl Configurations and Data
To remove liblucy-perl configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblucy-perl
Remove liblucy-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblucy-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblucy-perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblucy-perl package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
