How To Install python-mmkeys on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-mmkeys
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-mmkeys
python-mmkeys is:
This module lets you access multimedia keys found on most new keyboards from Python; most important it grabs all input events so your program doesn’t need to be in focus when the key is pressed (which is the usual behavior of the keys). You still need something like Acme or xmodmap to map the keys before using them.
There are three methods to install python-mmkeys
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-mmkeys 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-mmkeys
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-mmkeys
Install python-mmkeys Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-mmkeys
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-mmkeys
Install python-mmkeys 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-mmkeys
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-mmkeys
How To Uninstall python-mmkeys on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-mmkeys
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-mmkeys
Uninstall python-mmkeys And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-mmkeys
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-mmkeys
Remove python-mmkeys Configurations and Data
To remove python-mmkeys
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-mmkeys
Remove python-mmkeys configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-mmkeys
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-mmkeys
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-mmkeys
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.