How To Install xmlstarlet 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 xmlstarlet on Ubuntu.
What is xmlstarlet
xmlstarlet is:
XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) which can be used to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for plain text files using UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc commands.
This set of command line utilities can be used by those who deal with many XML documents on UNIX shell command prompt as well as for automated XML processing with shell scripts.
The toolkit’s feature set includes options to: Check or validate XML files (simple well-formedness check, DTD, XSD, RelaxNG) Calculate values of XPath expressions on XML files (such as running sums, etc) Search XML files for matches to given XPath expressions Apply XSLT stylesheets to XML documents (including EXSLT support, and passing parameters to stylesheets) Query XML documents (ex. query for value of some elements of attributes, sorting, etc) Modify or edit XML documents (ex. delete some elements) Format or “beautify” XML documents (as changing indentation, etc) Fetch XML documents using http:// or ftp:// URLs Browse tree structure of XML documents (in similar way to ’ls’ command for directories) Include one XML document into another using XInclude XML c14n canonicalization Escape/unescape special XML characters in input text Print directory as XML document Convert XML into PYX format (based on ESIS - ISO 8879), and vice versa
There are three methods to install xmlstarlet 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 xmlstarlet Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install xmlstarlet using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xmlstarlet
Install xmlstarlet Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install xmlstarlet using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xmlstarlet
Install xmlstarlet 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 xmlstarlet using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xmlstarlet
How To Uninstall xmlstarlet on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the xmlstarlet package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xmlstarlet
Uninstall xmlstarlet And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xmlstarlet and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xmlstarlet
Remove xmlstarlet Configurations and Data
To remove xmlstarlet configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xmlstarlet
Remove xmlstarlet configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xmlstarlet configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xmlstarlet
Dependencies
xmlstarlet have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xmlstarlet package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.