How To Install humanfriendly on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install humanfriendly
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is humanfriendly
humanfriendly is:
A Python library that can be used to make text interfaces more user friendly. It provides parsing and formatting numbers, file sizes, pathnames and timespans in simple human friendly formats. It provides easy to use timers for long running operations, prompts for selecting a choice from a list of options by typing the option’s number or a unique substring of the option, and terminal interaction including text styling (ANSI escape sequences), user friendly rendering of usage messages and querying the terminal for its size.
This package provides a helper command to access the functions in the library.
There are three methods to install humanfriendly
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 humanfriendly Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install humanfriendly
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install humanfriendly
Install humanfriendly Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install humanfriendly
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install humanfriendly
Install humanfriendly 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 humanfriendly
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install humanfriendly
How To Uninstall humanfriendly on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the humanfriendly
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove humanfriendly
Uninstall humanfriendly And Its Dependencies
To uninstall humanfriendly
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove humanfriendly
Remove humanfriendly Configurations and Data
To remove humanfriendly
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge humanfriendly
Remove humanfriendly configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove humanfriendly
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge humanfriendly
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install humanfriendly
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.