How To Install python-esmre on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-esmre on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-esmre
python-esmre is:
esmre is a Python module that can be used to speed up the execution of a large collection of regular expressions. It works by building a index of compulsory substrings from a collection of regular expressions, which it uses to quickly exclude those expressions which trivially do not match each input.
This is the Python 2 version of the package.
There are three methods to install python-esmre 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-esmre 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-esmre using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-esmre
Install python-esmre Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-esmre using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-esmre
Install python-esmre 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-esmre using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-esmre
How To Uninstall python-esmre on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-esmre package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-esmre
Uninstall python-esmre And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-esmre and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-esmre
Remove python-esmre Configurations and Data
To remove python-esmre configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-esmre
Remove python-esmre configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-esmre configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-esmre
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-esmre package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
