How To Install antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin on Ubuntu 18.04. antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin is Maven plugin for gUnit, a unit test framework for ANTLR grammars

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin

antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin is:

gUnit is a “Unit Test” framework for ANTLR grammars. It provides a simple way to write and run automated tests for ANTLR grammars in a manner similar to Java unit testing framework jUnit. The basic idea is to create a bunch of input/output pairs for rules in a grammar and gUnit will verify the expected output/result. The input can be a single line or multiple lines of strings or even an external file. The output can be simply success or failure, an abstract syntax tree (AST), a rule return value, or some text output which could be a rule’s template return value. The current version of gUnit has 2 main functions, interpreter and jUnit generator. The interpreter interprets your gUnit script and runs unit tests using Java reflection to invoke methods in your parser objects. The generator, on the other hand, translates your gUnit script to jUnit Java code that you can compile and execute by hand.

This package provides the Maven plugin that allows one to run gUnit tests during a Maven build.

There are three methods to install antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin 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 antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin

Install antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin

Install antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin 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 antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin

How To Uninstall antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin

Uninstall antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin And Its Dependencies

To uninstall antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin

Remove antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin Configurations and Data

To remove antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin

Remove antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.