How To Install libtwitter-api-perl 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 libtwitter-api-perl on Ubuntu.
What is libtwitter-api-perl
libtwitter-api-perl is:
Twitter::API provides an interface to the Twitter REST API for perl.
Features:
- full support for all Twitter REST API endpoints
- not dependent on a new distribution for new endpoint support
- optionally specify access tokens per API call
- error handling via an exception object that captures the full request/response context
- full support for OAuth handshake and Xauth authentication
Additional features are available via optional traits:
- convenient methods for API endpoints with simplified argument handling via ApiMethods
- normalized booleans (Twitter likes ’true’ and ‘false’, except when it doesn’t) via NormalizeBooleans
- automatic decoding of HTML entities via DecodeHtmlEntities
- automatic retry on transient errors via RetryOnError
- “the whole enchilada” combines all the above traits via Enchilada
- app-only (OAuth2) support via AppAuth
- automatic rate limiting via RateLimiting
There are three methods to install libtwitter-api-perl 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 libtwitter-api-perl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libtwitter-api-perl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libtwitter-api-perl
Install libtwitter-api-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libtwitter-api-perl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libtwitter-api-perl
Install libtwitter-api-perl 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 libtwitter-api-perl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libtwitter-api-perl
How To Uninstall libtwitter-api-perl on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the libtwitter-api-perl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libtwitter-api-perl
Uninstall libtwitter-api-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libtwitter-api-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libtwitter-api-perl
Remove libtwitter-api-perl Configurations and Data
To remove libtwitter-api-perl configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libtwitter-api-perl
Remove libtwitter-api-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libtwitter-api-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libtwitter-api-perl
Dependencies
libtwitter-api-perl have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtwitter-api-perl package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.