How To Install python-hypothesis on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-hypothesis on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-hypothesis
python-hypothesis is:
Hypothesis is a library for testing your Python code against a much larger range of examples than you would ever want to write by hand. It’s based on the Haskell library, Quickcheck, and is designed to integrate seamlessly into your existing Python unit testing work flow.
Hypothesis is both extremely practical and also advances the state of the art of unit testing by some way. It’s easy to use, stable, and extremely powerful. If you’re not using Hypothesis to test your project then you’re missing out.
This package contains the Python 2 module.
There are three methods to install python-hypothesis 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-hypothesis 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-hypothesis using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-hypothesis
Install python-hypothesis Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-hypothesis using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-hypothesis
Install python-hypothesis 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-hypothesis using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-hypothesis
How To Uninstall python-hypothesis on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-hypothesis package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-hypothesis
Uninstall python-hypothesis And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-hypothesis and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-hypothesis
Remove python-hypothesis Configurations and Data
To remove python-hypothesis configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-hypothesis
Remove python-hypothesis configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-hypothesis configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-hypothesis
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-hypothesis package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.