How To Install python3-google-compute-engine on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-google-compute-engine on Ubuntu 20.04. python3-google-compute-engine is Python library for Google Compute Engine interaction (Python 3) Python library for Google Compute Engine interaction (Python 3) Python library for Google Compute Engine interaction (Python 3)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-google-compute-engine on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is python3-google-compute-engine

python3-google-compute-engine is:

Python libraries used for interacting with Google Compute Engine’s APIs and functionality. This package contains the modules for Python 3.x.

Package: python3-google-compute-engine Architecture: all Version: 20190801-0ubuntu4.1 Priority: extra Section: python Source: gce-compute-image-packages Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Daniel Watkins [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 276 Depends: python3-distro, python3-pkg-resources, python3:any Filename: pool/main/g/gce-compute-image-packages/python3-google-compute-engine_20190801-0ubuntu4.1_all.deb Size: 34340 MD5sum: dcf6fc766879081b4eeaa9c0b8647551 SHA1: 00a6bf29042bf374b92566cd957aeb2b6c00d397 SHA256: 069b16f6222842f17b7deff5077bb5eecc48620ed6233462cac413a55ec673f1 SHA512: 01d8c6e707fff4235086c911119a770bab8f2ea869e62f820bb7cfd6082669ea694983e8f54b65ae313e12f99afe7437000ee2c35efe40f5798df23848e120df Homepage: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-packages Description-en: Python library for Google Compute Engine interaction (Python 3) Python libraries used for interacting with Google Compute Engine’s APIs and functionality. This package contains the modules for Python 3.x.

Package: python3-google-compute-engine Architecture: all Version: 20190801-0ubuntu4 Priority: extra Section: python Source: gce-compute-image-packages Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Daniel Watkins [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 276 Depends: python3-distro, python3-pkg-resources, python3:any Filename: pool/main/g/gce-compute-image-packages/python3-google-compute-engine_20190801-0ubuntu4_all.deb Size: 34292 MD5sum: 750f880fb79faa605e34b551cab498be SHA1: 665cb22f0b6697f843ddd63433837da9b4fb4e20 SHA256: e398fce29cf08ff9ae0f0551ef861640faaf95c3dbeba40c2c26eaf19100af0f Homepage: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-packages Description-en: Python library for Google Compute Engine interaction (Python 3) Python libraries used for interacting with Google Compute Engine’s APIs and functionality. This package contains the modules for Python 3.x.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-google-compute-engine

Install python3-google-compute-engine Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python3-google-compute-engine

Install python3-google-compute-engine 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-google-compute-engine using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-google-compute-engine

How To Uninstall python3-google-compute-engine on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the python3-google-compute-engine package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-google-compute-engine

Uninstall python3-google-compute-engine And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-google-compute-engine

Remove python3-google-compute-engine Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-google-compute-engine

Remove python3-google-compute-engine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-google-compute-engine

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Summary

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