How To Install libweb-scraper-perl on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libweb-scraper-perl on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libweb-scraper-perl
libweb-scraper-perl is:
Web::Scraper is a web scraper toolkit, inspired by Ruby’s equivalent Scrapi. It provides a DSL-ish interface for traversing HTML documents and returning a neatly arranged Perl data strcuture.
The scraper and process blocks provide a method to define what segments of a document to extract. It understands HTML and CSS Selectors as well as XPath expressions.
There are three methods to install libweb-scraper-perl on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libweb-scraper-perl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libweb-scraper-perl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libweb-scraper-perl
Install libweb-scraper-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libweb-scraper-perl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libweb-scraper-perl
Install libweb-scraper-perl 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 libweb-scraper-perl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libweb-scraper-perl
How To Uninstall libweb-scraper-perl on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libweb-scraper-perl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libweb-scraper-perl
Uninstall libweb-scraper-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libweb-scraper-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libweb-scraper-perl
Remove libweb-scraper-perl Configurations and Data
To remove libweb-scraper-perl configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libweb-scraper-perl
Remove libweb-scraper-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libweb-scraper-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libweb-scraper-perl
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libweb-scraper-perl package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
