How To Install tdom on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tdom on Ubuntu 18.04.
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, and 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 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 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tdom
Remove tdom Configurations and Data
To remove tdom configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tdom package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.