How To Install libfop-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 libfop-java on Ubuntu.

What is `libfop-java`

libfop-java is:

FOP is a Java application that reads a formatting object tree and then turns it into a wide variety of output presentations (including AFP, PCL, PDF, PNG, PostScript, RTF, TIFF, and plain text), or displays the result on-screen.

The formatting object tree can be in the form of an XML document (output by an XSLT engine like xalan) or can be passed in memory as a DOM Document or (in the case of xalan) SAX events.

This package contains the fop jar file

There are three methods to install libfop-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 libfop-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 libfop-java using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libfop-java

Install libfop-java Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libfop-java

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

sudo aptitude -y install libfop-java

How To Uninstall libfop-java on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove libfop-java

Uninstall libfop-java And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libfop-java

Remove libfop-java Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libfop-java

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

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

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

Dependencies

libfop-java have the following dependencies:

References

libfop-java website

Summary

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