How To Install mariadb-plugin-oqgraph on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install mariadb-plugin-oqgraph on Ubuntu 18.04. mariadb-plugin-oqgraph is OQGraph storage engine for MariaDB

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mariadb-plugin-oqgraph on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is mariadb-plugin-oqgraph

mariadb-plugin-oqgraph is:

The OQGraph engine is a computation engine plugin for handling hierarchies (trees) and graphs (friend-of-a-friend, etc) cleanly through standard SQL. This package contains the OQGraph plugin for MariaDB.

There are three methods to install mariadb-plugin-oqgraph 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 mariadb-plugin-oqgraph Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install mariadb-plugin-oqgraph using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mariadb-plugin-oqgraph

Install mariadb-plugin-oqgraph Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mariadb-plugin-oqgraph using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mariadb-plugin-oqgraph

Install mariadb-plugin-oqgraph 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 mariadb-plugin-oqgraph using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mariadb-plugin-oqgraph

How To Uninstall mariadb-plugin-oqgraph on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the mariadb-plugin-oqgraph package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mariadb-plugin-oqgraph

Uninstall mariadb-plugin-oqgraph And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mariadb-plugin-oqgraph and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mariadb-plugin-oqgraph

Remove mariadb-plugin-oqgraph Configurations and Data

To remove mariadb-plugin-oqgraph configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mariadb-plugin-oqgraph

Remove mariadb-plugin-oqgraph configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove mariadb-plugin-oqgraph configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mariadb-plugin-oqgraph

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mariadb-plugin-oqgraph package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.