How To Install python-brotli on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-brotli on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-brotli
python-brotli is:
Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed with deflate but offers more dense compression.
This package installs a Python 2 module.
There are three methods to install python-brotli 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-brotli 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-brotli using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-brotli
Install python-brotli Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-brotli using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-brotli
Install python-brotli 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-brotli using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-brotli
How To Uninstall python-brotli on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-brotli package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-brotli
Uninstall python-brotli And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-brotli and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-brotli
Remove python-brotli Configurations and Data
To remove python-brotli configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-brotli
Remove python-brotli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-brotli configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-brotli
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-brotli package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
