How To Install wixl on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wixl
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is wixl
wixl is:
wixl builds Windows Installer (.msi) packages from XML documents, in a similar fashion to the WiX toolset.
This package includes wixl-heat, which builds WiX XML fragments from lists of files and directories.
There are three methods to install wixl
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 wixl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wixl
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wixl
Install wixl Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wixl
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wixl
Install wixl 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 wixl
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wixl
How To Uninstall wixl on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the wixl
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wixl
Uninstall wixl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wixl
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wixl
Remove wixl Configurations and Data
To remove wixl
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wixl
Remove wixl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wixl
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wixl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wixl
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.