How To Install python3-apport on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-apport
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is python3-apport
python3-apport is:
This Python package provides high-level functions for creating and handling apport crash reports:
- Query available and new reports.
- Add OS, packaging, and process runtime information to a report.
- Various frontend utility functions.
- Python hook to generate crash reports when Python scripts fail. Task: server, ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, cloud-image, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: python3-apport Architecture: all Version: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27 Priority: optional Section: python Source: apport Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 575 Depends: python3:any (>= 3.0~), python3-apt (>= 0.7.9), python3-httplib2, python3-problem-report (>= 0.94), python3-requests-unixsocket, lsb-release, python3-launchpadlib Recommends: apport Filename: pool/main/a/apport/python3-apport_2.20.11-0ubuntu27_all.deb Size: 83628 MD5sum: d9b679e90658a45a6225d775bfb2e430 SHA1: 8117d623d82965fa147e9c4eb456846c811390df SHA256: 81d5ec8ad2fb9b4eb5249e76a79114c00bb789927e5cd14261bd147bbced95e2 Homepage: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport Description-en: Python 3 library for Apport crash report handling This Python package provides high-level functions for creating and handling apport crash reports:
- Query available and new reports.
- Add OS, packaging, and process runtime information to a report.
- Various frontend utility functions.
- Python hook to generate crash reports when Python scripts fail. Task: server, ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, cloud-image, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install python3-apport
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install python3-apport Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-apport
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-apport
Install python3-apport Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-apport
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-apport
Install python3-apport 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 python3-apport
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-apport
How To Uninstall python3-apport on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the python3-apport
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-apport
Uninstall python3-apport And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-apport
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-apport
Remove python3-apport Configurations and Data
To remove python3-apport
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-apport
Remove python3-apport configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-apport
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-apport
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-apport
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.