How To Install libstaroffice-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libstaroffice-tools on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libstaroffice-tools
libstaroffice-tools is:
The purpose of libstaroffice is to build a filter for old StarOffice’s documents (.sdc, .sdw, …) based on librevenge (see https://sourceforge.net/p/libwpd/wiki/librevenge/ and http://www.documentliberation.org/projects/ ).
This package contains tools tp convert StarOffice documents to RAW, SVG, Text, CSV and HTML.
There are three methods to install libstaroffice-tools 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 libstaroffice-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libstaroffice-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libstaroffice-tools
Install libstaroffice-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libstaroffice-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libstaroffice-tools
Install libstaroffice-tools 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 libstaroffice-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libstaroffice-tools
How To Uninstall libstaroffice-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libstaroffice-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libstaroffice-tools
Uninstall libstaroffice-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libstaroffice-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libstaroffice-tools
Remove libstaroffice-tools Configurations and Data
To remove libstaroffice-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libstaroffice-tools
Remove libstaroffice-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libstaroffice-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libstaroffice-tools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libstaroffice-tools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
