How To Install publican 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 publican on Ubuntu.

What is publican

publican is:

Publican is a DocBook XML publication system:

• Publican ensures your document is valid,
• Publican works to ensure your document is up to publishable standard,
• Publican supports skinning to allow you to create your own presentation rules and look, overriding many parts of the default style to meet your publishing needs,
• Publican automates producing documentation in several formats: plain text, several variations of HTML output and PDF, hiding boring details.

There are three methods to install publican 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 publican Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install publican

Install publican Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install publican using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install publican

Install publican 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 publican using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install publican

How To Uninstall publican on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the publican package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove publican

Uninstall publican And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove publican

Remove publican Configurations and Data

To remove publican configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge publican

Remove publican configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge publican

Dependencies

publican have the following dependencies:

• perl
• fonts-font-awesome
• docbook-xml
• docbook5-xml
• docbook-xsl
• docbook-xsl-ns
• fop
• gettext
• libarchive-zip-perl
• libconfig-simple-perl
• libdatetime-format-dateparse-perl
• libdatetime-perl
• libdbd-sqlite3-perl
• libdbi-perl
• libfile-copy-recursive-perl
• libfile-find-rule-perl
• libfile-homedir-perl
• libfile-inplace-perl
• libfile-pushd-perl
• libfile-slurp-perl
• libfile-which-perl
• libhtml-format-perl
• libhtml-formattext-withlinks-perl
• libhtml-formattext-withlinks-andtables-perl
• libhtml-template-perl
• libhtml-tree-perl
• libhtml-wikiconverter-perl
• libhtml-wikiconverter-markdown-perl
• libimage-magick-perl
• libimage-size-perl
• libio-string-perl
• liblingua-en-fathom-perl
• liblist-moreutils-perl
• liblocale-codes-perl
• liblocale-maketext-gettext-perl
• liblocale-maketext-lexicon-perl
• liblocale-msgfmt-perl
• liblocale-po-perl
• libsort-versions-perl
• libstring-similarity-perl
• libsyntax-highlight-engine-kate-perl
• libtemplate-perl
• libtext-csv-xs-perl
• libversion-perl
• libxml-libxml-perl
• libxml-libxslt-perl
• libxml-simple-perl
• libxml-treebuilder-perl
• librsvg2-bin

References

• publican website

Summary

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