How To Install python-html2text on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-html2text on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-html2text
python-html2text is:
html2text is a Python module that converts a page of HTML into clean, easy-to-read plain ASCII text. Better yet, that ASCII also happens to be valid Markdown (a text-to-HTML format).
This package contains the Python 2 version of the library, and a script, html2markdown.
There are three methods to install python-html2text 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-html2text 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-html2text using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-html2text
Install python-html2text Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-html2text using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-html2text
Install python-html2text 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-html2text using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-html2text
How To Uninstall python-html2text on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-html2text package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-html2text
Uninstall python-html2text And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-html2text and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-html2text
Remove python-html2text Configurations and Data
To remove python-html2text configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-html2text
Remove python-html2text configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-html2text configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-html2text
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-html2text package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
