How To Install libjsoup-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 libjsoup-java on Ubuntu.
What is libjsoup-java
libjsoup-java is:
Jsoup is a Java library for working with real-world HTML. It provides a very convenient API for extracting and manipulating data, using the best of DOM, CSS, and jquery-like methods.
jsoup implements the WHATWG HTML specification (http://whatwg.org/html), and parses HTML to the same DOM as modern browsers do.
- parse HTML from a URL, file, or string
- find and extract data, using DOM traversal or CSS selectors
- manipulate the HTML elements, attributes, and text
- clean user-submitted content against a safe white-list, to prevent XSS
- output tidy HTML
jsoup is designed to deal with all varieties of HTML found in the wild; from pristine and validating, to invalid tag-soup; jsoup will create a sensible parse tree.
There are three methods to install libjsoup-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 libjsoup-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 libjsoup-java using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libjsoup-java
Install libjsoup-java Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libjsoup-java using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libjsoup-java
Install libjsoup-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 libjsoup-java using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libjsoup-java
How To Uninstall libjsoup-java on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the libjsoup-java package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libjsoup-java
Uninstall libjsoup-java And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libjsoup-java and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libjsoup-java
Remove libjsoup-java Configurations and Data
To remove libjsoup-java configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libjsoup-java
Remove libjsoup-java configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libjsoup-java configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libjsoup-java
Dependencies
libjsoup-java have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libjsoup-java package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.