How To Install libxpp3-java on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxpp3-java on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libxpp3-java
libxpp3-java is:
Xml Pull Parser (in short XPP) is a streaming pull XML parser for java. This version XPP3 is a successor of XPP2 (see package libxpp2-java) that implements XmlPull API (see http://www.xmlpull.org).
However XPP3 currently supports only parsing and does not support incremental node tree from XPP2.
There are three methods to install libxpp3-java 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 libxpp3-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 libxpp3-java using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libxpp3-java
Install libxpp3-java Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libxpp3-java using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libxpp3-java
Install libxpp3-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libxpp3-java using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libxpp3-java
How To Uninstall libxpp3-java on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libxpp3-java package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libxpp3-java
Uninstall libxpp3-java And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libxpp3-java and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libxpp3-java
Remove libxpp3-java Configurations and Data
To remove libxpp3-java configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libxpp3-java
Remove libxpp3-java configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libxpp3-java configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libxpp3-java
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxpp3-java package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
