How To Install liblog4j1.2-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 liblog4j1.2-java
on Ubuntu.
What is liblog4j1.2-java
liblog4j1.2-java is:
log4j is a tool to help the programmer output log statements to a variety of output targets.
It is possible to enable logging at runtime without modifying the application binary. The log4j package is designed so that log statements can remain in shipped code without incurring a high performance cost.
One of the distinctive features of log4j is the notion of hierarchical loggers. Using loggers it is possible to selectively control which log statements are output at arbitrary granularity.
Log4j can output to: a file, a rolling file, a database with a JDBC driver, many output asynchronously, a JMS Topic, a swing based logging console, the NT event log, /dev/null, a SMTP server (using javamail), a socket server, syslog, telnet daemon and stdout.
The format of the output can be defined using one of the various layout (or user defined layout) like: simple text, html, date, pattern defined and XML.
There are three methods to install liblog4j1.2-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 liblog4j1.2-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 liblog4j1.2-java
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblog4j1.2-java
Install liblog4j1.2-java Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblog4j1.2-java
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblog4j1.2-java
Install liblog4j1.2-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 liblog4j1.2-java
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblog4j1.2-java
How To Uninstall liblog4j1.2-java on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the liblog4j1.2-java
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblog4j1.2-java
Uninstall liblog4j1.2-java And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblog4j1.2-java
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblog4j1.2-java
Remove liblog4j1.2-java Configurations and Data
To remove liblog4j1.2-java
configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblog4j1.2-java
Remove liblog4j1.2-java configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblog4j1.2-java
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblog4j1.2-java
Dependencies
liblog4j1.2-java have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblog4j1.2-java
package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.