How To Install python-hiro on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-hiro on Ubuntu 18.04. python-hiro is time manipulation utilities for Python - Python 2.X

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-hiro on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is python-hiro

python-hiro is:

The hiro module provides a context-manager which hijacks a few commonly used time function to manipulate time in its context. It allows you to rewind, forward, freeze, unfreeze, and scale time according to given settings.

Most notably, the builtin functions time.sleep, time.time, time.gmtime, datetime.now, datetime.utcnow and datetime.today behave according the configuration of the context.

This package provides the Python 2 version of the hiro module.

There are three methods to install python-hiro 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-hiro 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-hiro using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python-hiro

Install python-hiro Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python-hiro using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python-hiro

Install python-hiro 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-hiro using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-hiro

How To Uninstall python-hiro on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the python-hiro package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-hiro

Uninstall python-hiro And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python-hiro and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-hiro

Remove python-hiro Configurations and Data

To remove python-hiro configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-hiro

Remove python-hiro configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python-hiro configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-hiro

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-hiro package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.