How To Install libpdfbox2-java on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpdfbox2-java
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libpdfbox2-java
libpdfbox2-java is:
The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents.
This package contains version 2 of the library which is backwards incompatible.
There are three methods to install libpdfbox2-java
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 libpdfbox2-java Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libpdfbox2-java
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libpdfbox2-java
Install libpdfbox2-java Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libpdfbox2-java
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libpdfbox2-java
Install libpdfbox2-java 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 libpdfbox2-java
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libpdfbox2-java
How To Uninstall libpdfbox2-java on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libpdfbox2-java
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libpdfbox2-java
Uninstall libpdfbox2-java And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libpdfbox2-java
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpdfbox2-java
Remove libpdfbox2-java Configurations and Data
To remove libpdfbox2-java
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libpdfbox2-java
Remove libpdfbox2-java configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libpdfbox2-java
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpdfbox2-java
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpdfbox2-java
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.