How To Install xapers on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xapers on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is xapers
xapers is:
Xapers is a personal document indexing system, geared towards academic journal articles. Think of it as your own personal document search engine, or a local cache of online libraries. It provides fast search of document text and bibliographic data and simple document and bibtex retrieval.
Document files (in PDF format) and source identifiers (e.g. DOI) are parsed and indexed into a Xapian search engine. Document text is extracted from the PDF and fully indexed. Bibliographic information downloaded from online libraries is indexed as prefixed search terms. Existing bibtex databases can be easily imported as well, including import of pdf files specified in Jabref/Mendeley format. Documents can be arbitrarily tagged. Original document files are easily retrievable from a simple curses search UI. The command line interface allows for exporting bibtex from arbitrary searches, allowing seemless integration into LaTeX work flows.
There are three methods to install xapers 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 xapers Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install xapers using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xapers
Install xapers Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install xapers using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xapers
Install xapers 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 xapers using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xapers
How To Uninstall xapers on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the xapers package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xapers
Uninstall xapers And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xapers and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xapers
Remove xapers Configurations and Data
To remove xapers configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xapers
Remove xapers configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xapers configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xapers
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xapers package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
