How To Install python-bs4 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-bs4
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-bs4
python-bs4 is:
Beautiful Soup is a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files. It works with your favorite parser to provide idiomatic ways of navigating, searching, and modifying the parse tree. It commonly saves programmers hours or days of work.
This package contains BeautifulSoup 4, for Python 2.x.
There are three methods to install python-bs4
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-bs4 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-bs4
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-bs4
Install python-bs4 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-bs4
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-bs4
Install python-bs4 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-bs4
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-bs4
How To Uninstall python-bs4 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-bs4
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-bs4
Uninstall python-bs4 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-bs4
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-bs4
Remove python-bs4 Configurations and Data
To remove python-bs4
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-bs4
Remove python-bs4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-bs4
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-bs4
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-bs4
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.