How To Install python-versiontools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-versiontools
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-versiontools
python-versiontools is:
versiontools is a Python module providing a smart replacement for plain tuple used in version. It has following features:
- A piece of code that allows you to keep a single version definition inside your package or module. No more hacks in setup.py, no more duplicates in setup.py and somewhere else. Just one version per package.
- Version objects can produce nice version strings for released files that are compliant with PEP 386. Releases, alphas, betas, development snaphots. All of those get good version strings out of the box.
- Version objects understand the VCS used by your project. Git, Mercurial and Bazaar are supported out of the box. Custom systems can be added by 3rd party plugins.
- Version object that compares as a tuple of values and sorts properly.
- Zero-dependency install! If all you care about is handling setup() to get nice tarball names then you don’t need to depend on versiontools (no setup_requires, no install_requires!). You will need to bundle a small support module though.
This is the Python 2 version of the package.
There are three methods to install python-versiontools
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-versiontools 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-versiontools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-versiontools
Install python-versiontools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-versiontools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-versiontools
Install python-versiontools 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-versiontools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-versiontools
How To Uninstall python-versiontools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-versiontools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-versiontools
Uninstall python-versiontools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-versiontools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-versiontools
Remove python-versiontools Configurations and Data
To remove python-versiontools
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-versiontools
Remove python-versiontools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-versiontools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-versiontools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-versiontools
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.