How To Install python-pylibacl on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-pylibacl
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-pylibacl
python-pylibacl is:
pylibacl is a Python interface to the libacl library. It allows manipulation of the POSIX.1e-compliant filesystem ACLs present in some operating systems (GNU/Linux included).
This package contains the library for Python 2.
There are three methods to install python-pylibacl
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-pylibacl 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-pylibacl
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-pylibacl
Install python-pylibacl Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-pylibacl
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-pylibacl
Install python-pylibacl 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-pylibacl
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-pylibacl
How To Uninstall python-pylibacl on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-pylibacl
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-pylibacl
Uninstall python-pylibacl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-pylibacl
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-pylibacl
Remove python-pylibacl Configurations and Data
To remove python-pylibacl
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-pylibacl
Remove python-pylibacl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-pylibacl
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-pylibacl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-pylibacl
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.