How To Install libstring-tokenizer-perl on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libstring-tokenizer-perl
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libstring-tokenizer-perl
libstring-tokenizer-perl is:
String::Tokenizer is a simple string tokenizer which takes a string and splits it on whitespace. It also optionally takes a string of characters to use as delimiters, and returns them with the token set as well. This allows for splitting the string in many different ways.
This is a very basic tokenizer, so more complex needs should be either addressed with a custom written tokenizer or post-processing of the output generated by this module. Basically, this will not fill everyones needs, but it spans a gap between simple split / /, $string and the other options that involve much larger and complex modules.
Also note that this is not a lexical analyser. Many people confuse tokenization with lexical analysis. A tokenizer mearly splits its input into specific chunks, a lexical analyzer classifies those chunks. Sometimes these two steps are combined, but not here.
There are three methods to install libstring-tokenizer-perl
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 libstring-tokenizer-perl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libstring-tokenizer-perl
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libstring-tokenizer-perl
Install libstring-tokenizer-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libstring-tokenizer-perl
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libstring-tokenizer-perl
Install libstring-tokenizer-perl 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 libstring-tokenizer-perl
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libstring-tokenizer-perl
How To Uninstall libstring-tokenizer-perl on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libstring-tokenizer-perl
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libstring-tokenizer-perl
Uninstall libstring-tokenizer-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libstring-tokenizer-perl
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libstring-tokenizer-perl
Remove libstring-tokenizer-perl Configurations and Data
To remove libstring-tokenizer-perl
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libstring-tokenizer-perl
Remove libstring-tokenizer-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libstring-tokenizer-perl
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libstring-tokenizer-perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libstring-tokenizer-perl
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.