How To Install python-flask-bcrypt on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-flask-bcrypt
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-flask-bcrypt
python-flask-bcrypt is:
Due to the recent increased prevelance of powerful hardware, such as modern GPUs, hashes have become increasingly easy to crack. A proactive solution to this is to use a hash that was designed to be “de-optimized”. Bcrypt is such a hashing facility; unlike hashing algorithms such as MD5 and SHA1, which are optimized for speed, bcrypt is intentionally structured to be slow.
This is a Python 2 package
There are three methods to install python-flask-bcrypt
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install python-flask-bcrypt Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python-flask-bcrypt
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-flask-bcrypt
Install python-flask-bcrypt Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-flask-bcrypt
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-flask-bcrypt
Install python-flask-bcrypt 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 python-flask-bcrypt
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-flask-bcrypt
How To Uninstall python-flask-bcrypt on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-flask-bcrypt
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-flask-bcrypt
Uninstall python-flask-bcrypt And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-flask-bcrypt
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-flask-bcrypt
Remove python-flask-bcrypt Configurations and Data
To remove python-flask-bcrypt
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-flask-bcrypt
Remove python-flask-bcrypt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-flask-bcrypt
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-flask-bcrypt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-flask-bcrypt
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.