How To Install python-pkginfo on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-pkginfo
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-pkginfo
python-pkginfo is:
This package provides an API for querying the distutils metadata written in the PKG-INFO file inside a source distribution (an sdist), or into the EGG-INFO directory of an installed distribution.
This package contains the Python 2 version of the library
There are three methods to install python-pkginfo
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-pkginfo 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-pkginfo
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-pkginfo
Install python-pkginfo Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-pkginfo
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-pkginfo
Install python-pkginfo 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-pkginfo
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-pkginfo
How To Uninstall python-pkginfo on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-pkginfo
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-pkginfo
Uninstall python-pkginfo And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-pkginfo
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-pkginfo
Remove python-pkginfo Configurations and Data
To remove python-pkginfo
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-pkginfo
Remove python-pkginfo configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-pkginfo
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-pkginfo
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-pkginfo
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.