How To Install python-fs-browser on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-fs-browser on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-fs-browser
python-fs-browser is:
Pyfilesystem is a Python module that provides a common interface to many types of filesystem, and provides some powerful features such as exposing filesystems over an internet connection, or to the native filesystem.
This package is a dependency package, which depends on wxPython.
There are three methods to install python-fs-browser 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-fs-browser 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-fs-browser using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-fs-browser
Install python-fs-browser Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-fs-browser using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-fs-browser
Install python-fs-browser 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-fs-browser using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-fs-browser
How To Uninstall python-fs-browser on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-fs-browser package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-fs-browser
Uninstall python-fs-browser And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-fs-browser and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-fs-browser
Remove python-fs-browser Configurations and Data
To remove python-fs-browser configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-fs-browser
Remove python-fs-browser configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-fs-browser configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-fs-browser
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-fs-browser package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
