How To Install python-xcffib on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-xcffib on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-xcffib
python-xcffib is:
This package is intended to be a (mostly) drop-in replacement for xpyb. xpyb has an inactive upstream, several memory leaks, is python2 only and doesn’t have pypy support. xcffib is a binding which uses python-cffi, which mitigates some of the issues described above. xcffib also builds bindings for 27 of the 29 (xprint and xkb are missing) X extensions in 1.10.
This package installs the library for Python 2.
There are three methods to install python-xcffib 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-xcffib 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-xcffib using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-xcffib
Install python-xcffib Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-xcffib using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-xcffib
Install python-xcffib 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-xcffib using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-xcffib
How To Uninstall python-xcffib on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-xcffib package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-xcffib
Uninstall python-xcffib And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-xcffib and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-xcffib
Remove python-xcffib Configurations and Data
To remove python-xcffib configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-xcffib
Remove python-xcffib configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-xcffib configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-xcffib
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-xcffib package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
