How To Install tdom on Debian 12

Learn how to install tdom on Debian 12 with this tutorial. tdom is fast XML/DOM/XPath/XSLT/HTML/JSON extension for Tcl written in C

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tdom on Debian 12.

What is tdom

tdom is:

tDOM takes advantage of Expat, the XML parser from James Clark, including namespace and DTD support. It includes a modified version of Tclexpat, the Tcl interface to Expat, with event-based XML push (SAX-like) and pull (StAX-like) parsing. tDOM comes with a (partial) DOM-I and DOM-II implementation in C for maximum performance and minimum memory need. A very complete, compliant, and fast XPath implementation is provided. A fast XSLT implementation in C completes the basic feature set. tDOM interfaces with the gumbo HTML5 parser and provides a robust JSON parser/ serializer for JSON-to-JSON roundtripping. Documentation is provided in TMML, HTML and nroff formats.

There are three methods to install tdom 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 tdom Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tdom

Install tdom Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tdom using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tdom

Install tdom 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 tdom using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tdom

How To Uninstall tdom on Debian 12

To uninstall only the tdom package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tdom

Uninstall tdom And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tdom and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tdom

Remove tdom Configurations and Data

To remove tdom configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tdom

Remove tdom configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tdom configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tdom

Dependencies

tdom have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tdom package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.