How To Install liborcus-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install liborcus-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. liborcus-doc is library for processing spreadsheet documents - documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liborcus-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is liborcus-doc

liborcus-doc is:

Orcus is a library that provides a collection of standalone file processing filters. It is currently focused on providing filters for spreadsheet documents, but filters for other productivity application types (such as wordprocessor and presentation) are in consideration.

The library currently includes filters for xlsx, ods, csv, and generic XML formats.

This package contains the API documentation.

There are three methods to install liborcus-doc 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 liborcus-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liborcus-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liborcus-doc

Install liborcus-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liborcus-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liborcus-doc

Install liborcus-doc 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 liborcus-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liborcus-doc

How To Uninstall liborcus-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the liborcus-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liborcus-doc

Uninstall liborcus-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liborcus-doc

Remove liborcus-doc Configurations and Data

To remove liborcus-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liborcus-doc

Remove liborcus-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liborcus-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liborcus-doc

References

Summary

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