How To Install odt2txt on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install odt2txt on Debian 12.
What is odt2txt
odt2txt is:
odt2txt is a command-line tool which extracts the text out of OpenDocument Texts, as produced by OpenOffice.org, KOffice, StarOffice and others.
odt2txt can also extract text from some file formats similar to OpenDocument Text, such as OpenOffice.org XML (.sxw), which was used by OpenOffice.org version 1.x and older StarOffice versions. To a lesser extend, odt2txt may be useful to extract content from OpenDocument spreadsheets (.ods) and OpenDocument presentations (*.odp).
It is small and fast, can output the document in many encodings and adopts to your locale.
There are three methods to install odt2txt on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install odt2txt Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install odt2txt using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install odt2txt
Install odt2txt Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install odt2txt using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install odt2txt
Install odt2txt 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 odt2txt using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install odt2txt
How To Uninstall odt2txt on Debian 12
To uninstall only the odt2txt package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove odt2txt
Uninstall odt2txt And Its Dependencies
To uninstall odt2txt and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove odt2txt
Remove odt2txt Configurations and Data
To remove odt2txt configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge odt2txt
Remove odt2txt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove odt2txt configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge odt2txt
Dependencies
odt2txt have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install odt2txt package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.