How To Install gunicorn-examples on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install gunicorn-examples on Ubuntu 18.04. gunicorn-examples is Event-based HTTP/WSGI server (examples)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gunicorn-examples on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is gunicorn-examples

gunicorn-examples is:

Green Unicorn (gunicorn) is an HTTP/WSGI server designed to serve fast clients or sleepy applications. That is to say; behind a buffering front-end server such as nginx or lighttpd.

  • Optional support for Eventlet, Tornado and Gevent to provide asynchronous long-polling (“Comet”) connections.
  • Process management: Gunicorn reaps and restarts workers that die.
  • Easy integration with Django and Paster compatible applications (Pylons, TurboGears 2, etc.
  • Load balancing via pre-fork and a shared socket
  • Graceful worker process restarts
  • Upgrading without losing connections
  • Decode chunked transfers on-the-fly, allowing upload progress notifications or stream-based protocols over HTTP

These are the examples.

There are three methods to install gunicorn-examples 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 gunicorn-examples Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gunicorn-examples using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gunicorn-examples

Install gunicorn-examples Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gunicorn-examples

Install gunicorn-examples 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 gunicorn-examples using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gunicorn-examples

How To Uninstall gunicorn-examples on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the gunicorn-examples package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gunicorn-examples

Uninstall gunicorn-examples And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gunicorn-examples and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gunicorn-examples

Remove gunicorn-examples Configurations and Data

To remove gunicorn-examples configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gunicorn-examples

Remove gunicorn-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gunicorn-examples

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gunicorn-examples package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.