How To Install python-amqp on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-amqp on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-amqp
python-amqp is:
This is a fork of amqplib which was originally written by Barry Pederson. It is maintained by the Celery project, and used by kombu as a pure Python alternative when librabbitmq is not available.
This library should be API compatible with librabbitmq. Differences from amqplib are:
- Supports draining events from multiple channels (Connection.drain_events).
- Support for timeouts.
- Channels are restored after channel error, instead of having to close the connection.
- Support for heartbeats.
- Supports RabbitMQ extensions:
- Consumer Cancel Notifications.
- Publisher confirms.
- Exchange-to-exchange bindings: exchange_bind / exchange_unbind.
- Support for basic_return.
- Uses AMQP 0-9-1 instead of 0-8.
- Exposes the underlying socket as Connection.sock.
- Adds Channel.no_ack_consumers to keep track of consumer tags that set the no_ack flag.
- Slightly better at error recovery.
There are three methods to install python-amqp 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 python-amqp Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python-amqp using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-amqp
Install python-amqp Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-amqp using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-amqp
Install python-amqp 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 python-amqp using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-amqp
How To Uninstall python-amqp on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-amqp package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-amqp
Uninstall python-amqp And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-amqp and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-amqp
Remove python-amqp Configurations and Data
To remove python-amqp configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-amqp
Remove python-amqp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-amqp configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-amqp
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-amqp package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
