How To Install libreoffice-base-drivers on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libreoffice-base-drivers
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is libreoffice-base-drivers
libreoffice-base-drivers is:
LibreOffice is a full-featured office productivity suite that provides a near drop-in replacement for Microsoft(R) Office.
This package contains the database connectivity drivers used by LibreOffices database functionality:
- ODBC
- JDBC
- dBase
- Calc
- Flat files
You can extend this by installing:
- unixodbc: ODBC database support
- libmyodbc | odbc-postgresql | libsqliteodbc | tdsodbc | odbc-mdbtools: ODBC
drivers for:
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- SQLite
- MS SQL / Sybase SQL
- *.mdb (JET / MS Access)
- libmariadb-java | libpg-java | libjtds-java: JDBC Drivers
for:
- MySQL/MariaDB
- PostgreSQL
- MS SQL Server and Sybase
- libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb: embedded HSQLDB SDBC Driver
- libreoffice-sdbc-firebird: Firebird SDBC Driver
- libreoffice-sdbc-postgresql: PostgreSQL SDBC Driver
- libreoffice-sdbc-mysql: MySQL/MariaDB SDBC Driver
There are three methods to install libreoffice-base-drivers
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libreoffice-base-drivers Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libreoffice-base-drivers
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libreoffice-base-drivers
Install libreoffice-base-drivers Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libreoffice-base-drivers
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libreoffice-base-drivers
Install libreoffice-base-drivers 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 libreoffice-base-drivers
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libreoffice-base-drivers
How To Uninstall libreoffice-base-drivers on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the libreoffice-base-drivers
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-base-drivers
Uninstall libreoffice-base-drivers And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libreoffice-base-drivers
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libreoffice-base-drivers
Remove libreoffice-base-drivers Configurations and Data
To remove libreoffice-base-drivers
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libreoffice-base-drivers
Remove libreoffice-base-drivers configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libreoffice-base-drivers
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libreoffice-base-drivers
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libreoffice-base-drivers
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.