How To Install python3-lgpio on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-lgpio
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is python3-lgpio
python3-lgpio is:
The lgpio library is a fully featured library for controlling the GPIO pins of the local board. It includes facilities for software PWM, callbacks on level change, I2C, SPI, and UART wrappers.
This package contains the Python 3 bindings for liblgpio.
There are three methods to install python3-lgpio
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-lgpio 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-lgpio
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-lgpio
Install python3-lgpio Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-lgpio
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-lgpio
Install python3-lgpio 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-lgpio
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-lgpio
How To Uninstall python3-lgpio on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the python3-lgpio
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-lgpio
Uninstall python3-lgpio And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-lgpio
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-lgpio
Remove python3-lgpio Configurations and Data
To remove python3-lgpio
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-lgpio
Remove python3-lgpio configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-lgpio
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-lgpio
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-lgpio
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.