How to Install and Uninstall xapian-tools Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 20,2024

1. Install "xapian-tools" package

This guide let you learn how to install xapian-tools on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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2. Uninstall "xapian-tools" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall xapian-tools on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the xapian-tools package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: xapian-tools
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 725
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Olly Betts
Architecture: amd64
Source: xapian-core
Version: 1.2.22-2
Depends: libxapian22v5 (= 1.2.22-2), libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
Filename: pool/universe/x/xapian-core/xapian-tools_1.2.22-2_amd64.deb
Size: 88964
MD5sum: 2ab3b18ee913832cf85be52d0cba701f
SHA1: 7f0fd73e1ec40ea97b18b0bb2d51567447c219ed
SHA256: ae0d7b9725e57049acfafeb7f18dcf3f8a01f654358df17658de183cb811dfa8
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-inspect: Developer tool for low level inspection of a database.
- xapian-progsrv: stdin/stdout based server, for searching databases remotely.
- xapian-tcpsrv: TCP based server, used for searching databases remotely.
- xapian-chert-update: Update older format chert databases.
- 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: f8fa67f54b6db0523ecc051982ba7d21
Homepage: https://xapian.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu