How To Install libxapian-jni on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxapian-jni on Debian 10.
What is libxapian-jni
libxapian-jni 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-dependent part of the Xapian Java bindings.
There are three methods to install libxapian-jni 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-jni 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-jni using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libxapian-jni
Install libxapian-jni Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libxapian-jni using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libxapian-jni
Install libxapian-jni 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-jni using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libxapian-jni
How To Uninstall libxapian-jni on Debian 10
To uninstall only the libxapian-jni package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libxapian-jni
Uninstall libxapian-jni And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libxapian-jni and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libxapian-jni
Remove libxapian-jni Configurations and Data
To remove libxapian-jni configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libxapian-jni
Remove libxapian-jni configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libxapian-jni configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libxapian-jni
Dependencies
libxapian-jni have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxapian-jni package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.