How To Install python-tinyrpc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-tinyrpc on Ubuntu 18.04. python-tinyrpc is small, modular RPC library — Python 2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-tinyrpc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is python-tinyrpc

python-tinyrpc is:

‘tinyrpc’ is a library for making and handling RPC calls in Python.

Its initial scope is handling JSON-RPC, although it aims to be very well-documented and modular to make it easy to add support for further protocols.

A feature is support of multiple transports (or none at all) and providing clever syntactic sugar for writing dispatchers.

This package installs the library for Python 2.

There are three methods to install python-tinyrpc 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-tinyrpc 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-tinyrpc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python-tinyrpc

Install python-tinyrpc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python-tinyrpc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python-tinyrpc

Install python-tinyrpc 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-tinyrpc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-tinyrpc

How To Uninstall python-tinyrpc on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the python-tinyrpc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-tinyrpc

Uninstall python-tinyrpc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python-tinyrpc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-tinyrpc

Remove python-tinyrpc Configurations and Data

To remove python-tinyrpc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-tinyrpc

Remove python-tinyrpc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python-tinyrpc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-tinyrpc

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-tinyrpc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.