How To Install xapian-tools on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xapian-tools on Debian 12.
What is xapian-tools
xapian-tools is:
This package contains several tools related to Xapian.
- copydatabase: Copy one or more Xapian databases.
- delve: Inspect the contents of a Xapian database.
- quest: Command line search of a Xapian database.
- xapian-check: Check the validity of a Xapian database.
- xapian-compact: Compact a quartz database, or merge and compact several.
- xapian-progsrv: stdin/stdout based server, for searching databases remotely.
- xapian-tcpsrv: TCP based server, used for searching databases remotely.
- xapian-replicate: Replication client.
- xapian-replicate-server: Replication server.
- xapian-metadata: Inspect or set user metadata in a database.
The Xapian search engine library is a highly adaptable toolkit which allows developers to easily add advanced indexing and search facilities to their own applications. It implements the probabilistic model of information retrieval, and provides facilities for performing ranked free-text searches, relevance feedback, phrase searching, boolean searching, stemming, and simultaneous update and searching. It is highly scalable, and is capable of working with collections containing hundreds of millions of documents.
There are three methods to install xapian-tools 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 xapian-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install xapian-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xapian-tools
Install xapian-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install xapian-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xapian-tools
Install xapian-tools 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 xapian-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xapian-tools
How To Uninstall xapian-tools on Debian 12
To uninstall only the xapian-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xapian-tools
Uninstall xapian-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xapian-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xapian-tools
Remove xapian-tools Configurations and Data
To remove xapian-tools configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xapian-tools
Remove xapian-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xapian-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xapian-tools
Dependencies
xapian-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xapian-tools package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
