How To Install python-limits on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-limits on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-limits
python-limits is:
limits is a Python module providing utilities to implement rate limiting using various strategies, such as fixed or moving windows, and various storage backends, such as in in-memory storage, Redis or memcached.
This package provides the Python 2 version of the limits module.
There are three methods to install python-limits 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-limits 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-limits using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-limits
Install python-limits Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-limits using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-limits
Install python-limits 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-limits using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-limits
How To Uninstall python-limits on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-limits package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-limits
Uninstall python-limits And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-limits and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-limits
Remove python-limits Configurations and Data
To remove python-limits configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-limits
Remove python-limits configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-limits configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-limits
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-limits package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
