How to Install and Uninstall xapian-tools Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: June 02,2024

1. Install "xapian-tools" package

Learn how to install xapian-tools on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                xapian-tools
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "xapian-tools" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall xapian-tools on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the xapian-tools package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: xapian-tools
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.4.17-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Source: xapian-core
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Olly Betts
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 725
Depends: libxapian30 (= 1.4.17-1), libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
Filename: pool/universe/x/xapian-core/xapian-tools_1.4.17-1_amd64.deb
Size: 56384
MD5sum: f3f2ae3f32b90170ed41d825d8e00e76
SHA1: 4b99cf6702b00d4b029eda1e3650117c3020442b
SHA256: 57d9ccd06b025b72a19c1b1e72b4f5b536ff73a55a25ada4c3c39ca1a5314cad
SHA512: b7c816dcc441e15f964cc4bfa35a1daf42adb8a4ba5199e7297444c3aae4afd1996bfdd366495e266d9b1a7e170d395dd28141d5f61f902a8f42cda88bce17ef
Homepage: https://xapian.org/
Description-en: Basic tools for Xapian search engine library
This package contains several tools related to Xapian.
- copydatabase: Copy one or more Xapian databases.
- delve: Inspect the contents of a Xapian database.
- quest: Command line search of a Xapian database.
- xapian-check: Check the validity of a Xapian database.
- xapian-compact: Compact a quartz database, or merge and compact several.
- xapian-progsrv: stdin/stdout based server, for searching databases remotely.
- xapian-tcpsrv: TCP based server, used for searching databases remotely.
- xapian-replicate: Replication client.
- xapian-replicate-server: Replication server.
- xapian-metadata: Inspect or set user metadata in a database.
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The Xapian search engine library is a highly adaptable toolkit which allows
developers to easily add advanced indexing and search facilities to their own
applications. It implements the probabilistic model of information retrieval,
and provides facilities for performing ranked free-text searches, relevance
feedback, phrase searching, boolean searching, stemming, and simultaneous
update and searching. It is highly scalable, and is capable of working with
collections containing hundreds of millions of documents.
Description-md5: a4e9d8b956a6ab5d2ffd8875247ee21d