How To Install libreoffice-writer2xhtml on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libreoffice-writer2xhtml on Ubuntu 18.04. libreoffice-writer2xhtml is Writer/Calc to XHTML converter extension for LibreOffice

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libreoffice-writer2xhtml on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is libreoffice-writer2xhtml

libreoffice-writer2xhtml is:

Writer2LaTeX is a java utility to convert OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice documents – in particular documents containing formulas – into other formats. It is actually a collection of four converters, i.e.:

  1. Writer2LaTeX converts documents into LaTeX 2e format for high quality typesetting.
  2. Writer2BibTeX extracts bibliographic data from a document and stores it in BibTeX format (works together with Writer2LaTeX).
  3. Writer2xhtml converts documents into XHTML 1.0 or XHTML 1.1+MathML 2.0 with CSS2.
  4. Calc2xhtml is a companion to Writer2xhtml that converts Calc documents to XHTML 1.0 with CSS2 to display your spreadsheets on the web.

This package contains the extension providing writer2xhtml for LibreOffice.

There are three methods to install libreoffice-writer2xhtml 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 libreoffice-writer2xhtml 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-writer2xhtml using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libreoffice-writer2xhtml

Install libreoffice-writer2xhtml Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libreoffice-writer2xhtml using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libreoffice-writer2xhtml

Install libreoffice-writer2xhtml 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-writer2xhtml using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libreoffice-writer2xhtml

How To Uninstall libreoffice-writer2xhtml on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the libreoffice-writer2xhtml package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-writer2xhtml

Uninstall libreoffice-writer2xhtml And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libreoffice-writer2xhtml and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libreoffice-writer2xhtml

Remove libreoffice-writer2xhtml Configurations and Data

To remove libreoffice-writer2xhtml configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libreoffice-writer2xhtml

Remove libreoffice-writer2xhtml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libreoffice-writer2xhtml configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libreoffice-writer2xhtml

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libreoffice-writer2xhtml package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.