How To Install jxplorer on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install jxplorer on Ubuntu.
What is jxplorer
jxplorer is:
JXplorer is an open source LDAP browser originally developed by Computer Associates’ eTrust Directory development lab. It is a standards compliant general purpose LDAP browser that can be used to read and search any LDAP directory, or any X500 directory with an LDAP interface. JXplorer is a fully functional piece of software with advanced security integration and support for the more difficult and obscure parts of the LDAP protocol. It should run on any Java supporting operating system. Main features are:
- Standard LDAP operations: add/delete/copy/modify
- Complex operations: tree copy and tree delete
- Optional GUI based search filter construction
- SSL and SASL authentication
- pluggable editors/viewers
- pluggable security providers
- HTML templates/forms for data display
- Full i18n support
- LDIF file format support
- highly user configurable
- drag-n-drop browsing operation
- DSML Support
- handles complex LDAP cases: o multi valued rdns o binary attributes o Certificates and Passwords o Unicode characters o Special characters / UTF8 in distinguished names.
- Extensible architecture with object class based Java plugins
There are three methods to install jxplorer on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install jxplorer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install jxplorer using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install jxplorer
Install jxplorer Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install jxplorer using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install jxplorer
Install jxplorer 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 jxplorer using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install jxplorer
How To Uninstall jxplorer on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the jxplorer package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove jxplorer
Uninstall jxplorer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall jxplorer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove jxplorer
Remove jxplorer Configurations and Data
To remove jxplorer configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge jxplorer
Remove jxplorer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove jxplorer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge jxplorer
Dependencies
jxplorer have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install jxplorer package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.