How To Install libdsiutils-java 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 libdsiutils-java on Ubuntu.

What is `libdsiutils-java`

libdsiutils-java is:

The library contains:

Implementations of pseudorandom number generators;
BitVector and its implementations – a high-performance but flexible set of bit vector classes;
A it.unimi.dsi.compression package containing codecs for several types of encodings;
ProgressLogger, a flexible logger with statistics marking the progress of the classes that are used and that require hours of computation;
ObjectParser, a class making it easy to specify complex objects on the command line;
MutableString, an alternative to the immutable Java String class;
The I/O package, containing fast version of several classes existing in java.io, many useful classes to read easily text data (e.g., FileLinesCollection), bit streams, classes providing large-size memory mapping such as ByteBufferInputStream, and OfflineIterable – the easy & fast way to store large sequences of objects on disk and iterate on them;
The it.unimi.dsi.util package, containing pseudorandom number generators, tries, immutable prefix maps, Bloom filters, a very comfortable Properties class and more;
The it.unimi.dsi.stat package, containing a lightweight class for computing basic statistics and an arbitrary-precision implementation of the Jackknife method;
Lots of utility methods in Util;
Big versions of I/O and utility classes in it.unimi.dsi.big.io and it.unimi.dsi.big.util;
The BulletParser, used to parse HTML and XML.

There are three methods to install libdsiutils-java 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 libdsiutils-java Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libdsiutils-java using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libdsiutils-java

Install libdsiutils-java Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libdsiutils-java using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libdsiutils-java

Install libdsiutils-java 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 libdsiutils-java using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libdsiutils-java

How To Uninstall libdsiutils-java on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the libdsiutils-java package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libdsiutils-java

Uninstall libdsiutils-java And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libdsiutils-java and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdsiutils-java

Remove libdsiutils-java Configurations and Data

To remove libdsiutils-java configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libdsiutils-java

Remove libdsiutils-java configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libdsiutils-java configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libdsiutils-java

Dependencies

libdsiutils-java have the following dependencies:

References

libdsiutils-java website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdsiutils-java package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.