How To Install libxapian-java on Debian 10

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxapian-java on Debian 10.

What is libxapian-java

libxapian-java is:

The Xapian search engine library is a highly adaptable toolkit which allows developers to easily add advanced indexing and search facilities to their own applications. It implements the probabilistic model of information retrieval, and provides facilities for performing ranked free-text searches, relevance feedback, phrase searching, boolean searching, stemming, and simultaneous update and searching. It is highly scalable, and is capable of working with collections containing hundreds of millions of documents.

The Xapian Java bindings provide an interface to the Xapian library from Java, allowing both indexing and retrieval operations.

This package contains the architecture-independent part of the Xapian Java bindings.

There are three methods to install libxapian-java on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libxapian-java Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libxapian-java

Install libxapian-java Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libxapian-java

Install libxapian-java 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libxapian-java using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libxapian-java

How To Uninstall libxapian-java on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libxapian-java package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libxapian-java

Uninstall libxapian-java And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libxapian-java and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libxapian-java

Remove libxapian-java Configurations and Data

To remove libxapian-java configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libxapian-java

Remove libxapian-java configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libxapian-java

Dependencies

libxapian-java have the following dependencies:

• libxapian-jni
• libxapian-jni

References

• libxapian-java website
• libxapian-java on packages.debian.org

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxapian-java package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.