How To Install libxmlb-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxmlb-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libxmlb-dev
libxmlb-dev is:
This package provides development libraryes for libxmlb.
The libxmlb library takes XML source, and converts it to a structured binary representation with a deduplicated string table – where the strings have the NULs included.
This allows an application to mmap the binary XML file, do an XPath query and return some strings without actually parsing the entire document. This is all done using (almost) zero allocations and no actual copying of the binary data.
There are three methods to install libxmlb-dev 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 libxmlb-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libxmlb-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libxmlb-dev
Install libxmlb-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libxmlb-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libxmlb-dev
Install libxmlb-dev 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 libxmlb-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libxmlb-dev
How To Uninstall libxmlb-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libxmlb-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libxmlb-dev
Uninstall libxmlb-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libxmlb-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libxmlb-dev
Remove libxmlb-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libxmlb-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libxmlb-dev
Remove libxmlb-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libxmlb-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libxmlb-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxmlb-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
