How To Install python3-bs4 on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-bs4 on Ubuntu 20.04. python3-bs4 is error-tolerant HTML parser for Python 3

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-bs4 on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is python3-bs4

python3-bs4 is:

Beautiful Soup is a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files. It works with your favorite parser to provide idiomatic ways of navigating, searching, and modifying the parse tree. It commonly saves programmers hours or days of work.

This package contains BeautifulSoup 4, for Python 3.x. Task: ubuntustudio-publishing, ubuntukylin-desktop

There are three methods to install python3-bs4 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-bs4 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-bs4 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-bs4

Install python3-bs4 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-bs4 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-bs4

Install python3-bs4 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-bs4 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-bs4

How To Uninstall python3-bs4 on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the python3-bs4 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-bs4

Uninstall python3-bs4 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-bs4 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-bs4

Remove python3-bs4 Configurations and Data

To remove python3-bs4 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-bs4

Remove python3-bs4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-bs4 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-bs4

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-bs4 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.