How to Install and Uninstall xapian-tools Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 20,2024

1. Install "xapian-tools" package

This guide let you learn how to install xapian-tools on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall xapian-tools on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                xapian-tools
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the xapian-tools package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: xapian-tools
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.4.18-3build1
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: 304
Depends: libxapian30 (= 1.4.18-3build1), libc6 (>= 2.34), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3.1), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
Filename: pool/universe/x/xapian-core/xapian-tools_1.4.18-3build1_amd64.deb
Size: 57914
MD5sum: bcc1bd3f04d51c76f1a2fffbd629bdd4
SHA1: 40349bc35a6a4620ca38d4a28abd1cd62cfd74d3
SHA256: 1b1867a6ef5353272a10a38030bd93d713e92d50e28e5f8d6ec0f1e991cd3169
SHA512: 68fb7034c7cb48d0dcfcca7fce01726743f8827fc25c823dd44bd332ff789a85e1f7b45475ae68b63063779f28c9228ca8a3268de2b7570e17b24ca898d32f51
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