How To Install python-magic on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-magic
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-magic
python-magic is:
python-magic is a Python interface to the libmagic file type identification library. libmagic identifies file types by checking their headers according to a predefined list of file types. This functionality is exposed to the command line by the Unix command file.
This package provides the Python 2 version of the python-magic module.
There are three methods to install python-magic
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-magic 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-magic
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-magic
Install python-magic Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-magic
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-magic
Install python-magic 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-magic
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-magic
How To Uninstall python-magic on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-magic
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-magic
Uninstall python-magic And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-magic
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-magic
Remove python-magic Configurations and Data
To remove python-magic
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-magic
Remove python-magic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-magic
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-magic
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-magic
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.