How To Install python-txtorcon on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-txtorcon on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-txtorcon
python-txtorcon is:
txtorcon main feature is to present an asynchronous API to speak the Tor client protocol in Python. It also provides abstractions to track and get updates about Tor’s state and current configuration (including writing it to Tor or disk), along with helpers to asynchronously launch slave instances of Tor including Twisted endpoint support.
Twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python and Tor is an onion-routing network designed to improve people’s privacy and anonymity on the Internet.
This package contains the Python 2 module.
There are three methods to install python-txtorcon 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-txtorcon 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-txtorcon using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-txtorcon
Install python-txtorcon Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-txtorcon using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-txtorcon
Install python-txtorcon 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-txtorcon using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-txtorcon
How To Uninstall python-txtorcon on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-txtorcon package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-txtorcon
Uninstall python-txtorcon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-txtorcon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-txtorcon
Remove python-txtorcon Configurations and Data
To remove python-txtorcon configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-txtorcon
Remove python-txtorcon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-txtorcon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-txtorcon
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-txtorcon package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
