How To Install python-translitcodec on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-translitcodec on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-translitcodec
python-translitcodec is:
This package contains codecs for transliterating ISO 10646 texts into best-effort representations using smaller coded character sets (ASCII, ISO 8859, etc.). The translation tables used by the codecs are from the transtab collection by Markus Kuhn.
There are three methods to install python-translitcodec 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-translitcodec 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-translitcodec using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-translitcodec
Install python-translitcodec Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-translitcodec using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-translitcodec
Install python-translitcodec 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-translitcodec using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-translitcodec
How To Uninstall python-translitcodec on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-translitcodec package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-translitcodec
Uninstall python-translitcodec And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-translitcodec and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-translitcodec
Remove python-translitcodec Configurations and Data
To remove python-translitcodec configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-translitcodec
Remove python-translitcodec configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-translitcodec configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-translitcodec
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-translitcodec package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
