How To Install python-beautifulsoup on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-beautifulsoup on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-beautifulsoup
python-beautifulsoup is:
The BeautifulSoup class turns arbitrarily bad HTML into a tree-like nested tag-soup list of Tag objects and text snippets. A Tag object corresponds to an HTML tag. It knows about the HTML tag’s attributes, and contains a representation of everything contained between the original tag and its closing tag (if any). It’s easy to extract Tags that meet certain criteria.
There are three methods to install python-beautifulsoup 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-beautifulsoup 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-beautifulsoup using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-beautifulsoup
Install python-beautifulsoup Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-beautifulsoup using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-beautifulsoup
Install python-beautifulsoup 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-beautifulsoup using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-beautifulsoup
How To Uninstall python-beautifulsoup on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-beautifulsoup package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-beautifulsoup
Uninstall python-beautifulsoup And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-beautifulsoup and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-beautifulsoup
Remove python-beautifulsoup Configurations and Data
To remove python-beautifulsoup configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-beautifulsoup
Remove python-beautifulsoup configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-beautifulsoup configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-beautifulsoup
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-beautifulsoup package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
