How To Install uniutils 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 uniutils on Ubuntu.
What is uniutils
uniutils is:
Useful tools when working with Unicode files when one doesn’t know the writing system, doesn’t have the necessary font, needs to inspect invisible characters, needs to find out whether characters have been combined or in what order they occur, or needs statistics on which characters occur.
- uniname defaults to printing the character offset of each character, its byte offset, its hex code value, its encoding, the glyph itself, and its name. It may also be used to validate UTF-8 input.
- unidesc reports the character ranges to which different portions of the text belong. It can also be used to identify Unicode encodings (e.g. UTF-16be) flagged by magic numbers.
- unihist generates a histogram of the characters in its input.
- ExplicateUTF8 is intended for debugging or for learning about Unicode. It determines and explains the validity of a sequence of bytes as a UTF8 encoding.
- utf8lookup provides a handy way to look up Unicode characters from the command line.
- unireverse reverse each line of UTF-8 input character-by-character.
There are three methods to install uniutils 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 uniutils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install uniutils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install uniutils
Install uniutils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install uniutils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install uniutils
Install uniutils 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 uniutils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install uniutils
How To Uninstall uniutils on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the uniutils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove uniutils
Uninstall uniutils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall uniutils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove uniutils
Remove uniutils Configurations and Data
To remove uniutils configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge uniutils
Remove uniutils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove uniutils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge uniutils
Dependencies
uniutils have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install uniutils package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.