How To Install python-libesedb on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-libesedb
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-libesedb
python-libesedb is:
libesedb is a library to access the Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) Database File (EDB) format. The ESE database format is used in may different applications like Windows Search, Windows Mail, Exchange, Active Directory, etc..
This package contains Python 2 bindings for libesedb.
There are three methods to install python-libesedb
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-libesedb 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-libesedb
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-libesedb
Install python-libesedb Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-libesedb
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-libesedb
Install python-libesedb 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-libesedb
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-libesedb
How To Uninstall python-libesedb on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-libesedb
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-libesedb
Uninstall python-libesedb And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-libesedb
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-libesedb
Remove python-libesedb Configurations and Data
To remove python-libesedb
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-libesedb
Remove python-libesedb configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-libesedb
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-libesedb
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-libesedb
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.