How To Install libxerces2-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 libxerces2-java on Ubuntu.

What is `libxerces2-java`

libxerces2-java is:

The Xerces2 Java parser is the reference implementation of XNI, the Xerces Native Interface, and also a fully conforming XML Schema processor.

Xerces2-J supports the following standards and APIs:

eXtensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 Second Edition Recommendation
Namespaces in XML Recommendation
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core, Events, and Traversal and Range Recommendations
Simple API for XML (SAX) 2.0.1 Core and Extension
Java APIs for XML Processing (JAXP) 1.2.01
XML Schema 1.0 Structures and Datatypes Recommendations
Experimental implementation of the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core and Load/Save Working Drafts
Provides a partial implementation of the XML Inclusions (XInclude) W3C Candidate Recommendation

Xerces is now able to parse documents written according to the XML 1.1 Candidate Recommendation, except that it does not yet provide an option to enable normalization checking as described in section 2.13 of this specification. It also handles namespaces according to the XML Namespaces 1.1 Candidate Recommendation, and will correctly serialize XML 1.1 documents if the DOM level 3 load/save API’s are in use.

There are three methods to install libxerces2-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 libxerces2-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 libxerces2-java using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libxerces2-java

Install libxerces2-java Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libxerces2-java using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libxerces2-java

Install libxerces2-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 libxerces2-java using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libxerces2-java

How To Uninstall libxerces2-java on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the libxerces2-java package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libxerces2-java

Uninstall libxerces2-java And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libxerces2-java and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libxerces2-java

Remove libxerces2-java Configurations and Data

To remove libxerces2-java configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libxerces2-java

Remove libxerces2-java configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libxerces2-java configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libxerces2-java

Dependencies

libxerces2-java have the following dependencies:

References

libxerces2-java website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxerces2-java package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.