How To Install python-cyclone on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-cyclone on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-cyclone
python-cyclone is:
Cyclone is a web server framework for Python that implements the Tornado API as a Twisted protocol.
Twisted is an event-driven network programming framework for Python. It’s one of the most mature libraries for non-blocking I/O available to the public. Tornado is one of the most popular and fast web servers for Python, with a very decent API for building web applications.
The idea is to bridge Tornado’s elegant and straightforward API to Twisted’s Event-Loop, enabling a vast number of supported protocols.
This combination provides the ground for building up hybrid servers capable of handling HTTP very efficiently while also serve or use email, SSH, SIP, IRC, etc., all concurrently.
There are three methods to install python-cyclone 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-cyclone 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-cyclone using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-cyclone
Install python-cyclone Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-cyclone using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-cyclone
Install python-cyclone 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-cyclone using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-cyclone
How To Uninstall python-cyclone on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-cyclone package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-cyclone
Uninstall python-cyclone And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-cyclone and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-cyclone
Remove python-cyclone Configurations and Data
To remove python-cyclone configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-cyclone
Remove python-cyclone configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-cyclone configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-cyclone
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-cyclone package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.