How To Install python-humanfriendly on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-humanfriendly on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-humanfriendly
python-humanfriendly is:
A Python library that can be used to make text interfaces more user friendly. It provides parsing and formatting numbers, file sizes, pathnames and timespans in simple human friendly formats. It provides easy to use timers for long running operations, prompts for selecting a choice from a list of options by typing the option’s number or a unique substring of the option, and terminal interaction including text styling (ANSI escape sequences), user friendly rendering of usage messages and querying the terminal for its size.
This package installs the library for Python 2.
There are three methods to install python-humanfriendly 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-humanfriendly 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-humanfriendly using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-humanfriendly
Install python-humanfriendly Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-humanfriendly using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-humanfriendly
Install python-humanfriendly 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-humanfriendly using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-humanfriendly
How To Uninstall python-humanfriendly on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-humanfriendly package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-humanfriendly
Uninstall python-humanfriendly And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-humanfriendly and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-humanfriendly
Remove python-humanfriendly Configurations and Data
To remove python-humanfriendly configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-humanfriendly
Remove python-humanfriendly configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-humanfriendly configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-humanfriendly
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-humanfriendly package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
