How To Install python-backports-abc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-backports-abc
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-backports-abc
python-backports-abc is:
This is a backport to Python 2 of recent additions to the “collections.abc” in Python 3.5.
This package is (obviously) for Python 2.
There are three methods to install python-backports-abc
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-backports-abc 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-backports-abc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-backports-abc
Install python-backports-abc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-backports-abc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-backports-abc
Install python-backports-abc 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-backports-abc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-backports-abc
How To Uninstall python-backports-abc on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-backports-abc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-backports-abc
Uninstall python-backports-abc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-backports-abc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-backports-abc
Remove python-backports-abc Configurations and Data
To remove python-backports-abc
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-backports-abc
Remove python-backports-abc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-backports-abc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-backports-abc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-backports-abc
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.