How To Install libuchardet0 on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libuchardet0 on Ubuntu 18.04. libuchardet0 is universal charset detection library - shared library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libuchardet0 on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is libuchardet0

libuchardet0 is:

uchardet is a C language binding of the original C++ implementation of the universal charset detection library by Mozilla.

uchardet is a encoding detector library, which takes a sequence of bytes in an unknown character encoding without any additional information, and attempts to determine the encoding of the text.

This package contains the shared library.

There are three methods to install libuchardet0 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 libuchardet0 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libuchardet0 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libuchardet0

Install libuchardet0 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libuchardet0 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libuchardet0

Install libuchardet0 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 libuchardet0 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libuchardet0

How To Uninstall libuchardet0 on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the libuchardet0 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libuchardet0

Uninstall libuchardet0 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libuchardet0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libuchardet0

Remove libuchardet0 Configurations and Data

To remove libuchardet0 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libuchardet0

Remove libuchardet0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libuchardet0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libuchardet0

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libuchardet0 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.