How To Install freetable on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freetable
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is freetable
freetable is:
Freetable is a perl script that aims to make the production of HTML tables a little easier. This script works as a filter, reading stdin and writing to stdout.
The input syntax is as roughly follows:
<wwwtable table-options...>
initial text (e.g. <caption> ... </caption>).
(X, Y) options for cell (X, Y)
text for cell (X,Y)...
((X,Y)) options for header cell X,Y
text for header cell (X,Y)...
</wwwtable>
Rows and cells may be specified in any order, numbering starts at 1. X and/or Y may be replaced by regular expression, explicit range or even arbitrary Perl code to indicate rows or columns. Options or text (or both) may be omitted for cells. Cells may be omitted completely if they are empty or fall under the rowspan/colspan specifications of another cell. Cells may contain arbitrary HTML text, including other freetable tables.
There are three methods to install freetable
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 freetable Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install freetable
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install freetable
Install freetable Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install freetable
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install freetable
Install freetable 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 freetable
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install freetable
How To Uninstall freetable on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the freetable
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove freetable
Uninstall freetable And Its Dependencies
To uninstall freetable
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove freetable
Remove freetable Configurations and Data
To remove freetable
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge freetable
Remove freetable configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove freetable
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge freetable
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freetable
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.