How To Install python-libvhdi on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-libvhdi
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-libvhdi
python-libvhdi is:
libvhdi is a library to access the Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) image format.
This package contains Python 2 bindings for libvhdi.
There are three methods to install python-libvhdi
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-libvhdi 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-libvhdi
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-libvhdi
Install python-libvhdi Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-libvhdi
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-libvhdi
Install python-libvhdi 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-libvhdi
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-libvhdi
How To Uninstall python-libvhdi on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-libvhdi
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-libvhdi
Uninstall python-libvhdi And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-libvhdi
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-libvhdi
Remove python-libvhdi Configurations and Data
To remove python-libvhdi
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-libvhdi
Remove python-libvhdi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-libvhdi
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-libvhdi
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-libvhdi
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.