How To Install libutf8-all-perl on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libutf8-all-perl on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libutf8-all-perl
libutf8-all-perl is:
The utf8 pragma allows you to write Perl source code encoded in UTF-8. That means UTF-8 strings, variable names, and regular expressions. utf8::all goes further, and makes @ARGV encoded in UTF-8, and filehandles are opened with UTF-8 encoding turned on by default (including STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR). If you don’t want UTF-8 for a particular filehandle, you’ll have to set binmode $filehandle.
There are three methods to install libutf8-all-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 libutf8-all-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 libutf8-all-perl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libutf8-all-perl
Install libutf8-all-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libutf8-all-perl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libutf8-all-perl
Install libutf8-all-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 libutf8-all-perl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libutf8-all-perl
How To Uninstall libutf8-all-perl on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libutf8-all-perl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libutf8-all-perl
Uninstall libutf8-all-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libutf8-all-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libutf8-all-perl
Remove libutf8-all-perl Configurations and Data
To remove libutf8-all-perl configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libutf8-all-perl
Remove libutf8-all-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libutf8-all-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libutf8-all-perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libutf8-all-perl package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
