How To Install uchardet on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install uchardet
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is uchardet
uchardet is:
uchardet is a C language binding of the original C++ implementation of the universal charset detection library by Mozilla.
uchardet is a encoding detector library, which takes a sequence of bytes in an unknown character encoding without any additional information, and attempts to determine the encoding of the text.
This package contains the cli detection utility.
There are three methods to install uchardet
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install uchardet Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install uchardet
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install uchardet
Install uchardet Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install uchardet
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install uchardet
Install uchardet 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 uchardet
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install uchardet
How To Uninstall uchardet on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the uchardet
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove uchardet
Uninstall uchardet And Its Dependencies
To uninstall uchardet
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove uchardet
Remove uchardet Configurations and Data
To remove uchardet
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge uchardet
Remove uchardet configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove uchardet
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge uchardet
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install uchardet
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.