How To Install libhtmlcxx-dev 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 libhtmlcxx-dev on Ubuntu.

What is `libhtmlcxx-dev`

libhtmlcxx-dev is:

htmlcxx is a simple non-validating CSS1 and HTML parser for C++. Although there are several other html parsers available, htmlcxx has some characteristics that make it unique:

STL like navigation of DOM tree, using excellent tree.hh library from Kasper Peeters
It is possible to reproduce exactly, character by character, the original document from the parse tree
Bundled CSS parser
Optional parsing of attributes
C++ code that looks like C++ (not so true anymore)
Offsets of tags/elements in the original document are stored in the nodes of the DOM tree

The parsing politics of htmlcxx were created trying to mimic Mozilla Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org) behavior. So you should expect parse trees similar to those create by Firefox. However, differently from Firefox, htmlcxx does not insert non-existent stuff in your html. Therefore, serializing the DOM tree gives exactly the same bytes contained in the original HTML document.

This package contains files required for developing software that makes use of htmlcxx.

There are three methods to install libhtmlcxx-dev 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 libhtmlcxx-dev Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libhtmlcxx-dev

Install libhtmlcxx-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libhtmlcxx-dev

Install libhtmlcxx-dev 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 libhtmlcxx-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libhtmlcxx-dev

How To Uninstall libhtmlcxx-dev on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the libhtmlcxx-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libhtmlcxx-dev

Uninstall libhtmlcxx-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libhtmlcxx-dev

Remove libhtmlcxx-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libhtmlcxx-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libhtmlcxx-dev

Remove libhtmlcxx-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libhtmlcxx-dev

Dependencies

libhtmlcxx-dev have the following dependencies:

References

libhtmlcxx-dev website

Summary

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