How To Install python-monotonic on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-monotonic on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-monotonic
python-monotonic is:
This module provides a monotonic() function which returns the value (in fractional seconds) of a clock which never goes backwards. On Python 3.3 or newer, monotonic will be an alias of time.monotonic from the standard library. On older versions, it will fall back to an equivalent implementation: GetTickCount64 on Windows, mach_absolute_time on OS X, and clock_gettime(3) on Linux/BSD.
If no suitable implementation exists for the current platform, attempting to import this module (or to import from it) will cause a RuntimeError exception to be raised.
This package contains the Python 2.x module.
There are three methods to install python-monotonic 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-monotonic 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-monotonic using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-monotonic
Install python-monotonic Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-monotonic using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-monotonic
Install python-monotonic 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-monotonic using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-monotonic
How To Uninstall python-monotonic on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-monotonic package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-monotonic
Uninstall python-monotonic And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-monotonic and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-monotonic
Remove python-monotonic Configurations and Data
To remove python-monotonic configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-monotonic
Remove python-monotonic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-monotonic configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-monotonic
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-monotonic package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
