How To Install python-boltons on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-boltons on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-boltons
python-boltons is:
Boltons is a set of over 160 BSD-licensed, pure-Python utilities in the same spirit as — and yet conspicuously missing from — the standard library, including:
- Atomic file saving, bolted on with fileutils
- A highly-optimized OrderedMultiDict, in dictutils
- Two types of PriorityQueue, in queueutils
- Chunked and windowed iteration, in iterutils
- Recursive data structure iteration and merging, with iterutils.remap
- Exponential backoff functionality, including jitter, through iterutils.backoff
- A full-featured TracebackInfo type, for representing stack traces, in tbutils
This package installs the library for Python 2.
There are three methods to install python-boltons 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-boltons 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-boltons using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-boltons
Install python-boltons Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-boltons using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-boltons
Install python-boltons 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-boltons using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-boltons
How To Uninstall python-boltons on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-boltons package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-boltons
Uninstall python-boltons And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-boltons and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-boltons
Remove python-boltons Configurations and Data
To remove python-boltons configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-boltons
Remove python-boltons configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-boltons configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-boltons
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-boltons package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
