How To Install python-apsw on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-apsw
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-apsw
python-apsw is:
APSW (Another Python SQLite Wrapper) is an SQLite 3 wrapper that provides the thinnest layer over SQLite 3 possible. Everything you can do from the C API to SQLite 3, you can do from Python. Although APSW’s API looks vaguely similar to Python’s DB-API, it is not compliant with that API and instead works the way SQLite 3 does.
There are three methods to install python-apsw
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-apsw 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-apsw
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-apsw
Install python-apsw Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-apsw
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-apsw
Install python-apsw 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-apsw
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-apsw
How To Uninstall python-apsw on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-apsw
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-apsw
Uninstall python-apsw And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-apsw
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-apsw
Remove python-apsw Configurations and Data
To remove python-apsw
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-apsw
Remove python-apsw configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-apsw
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-apsw
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-apsw
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.