How To Install python-netmiko on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-netmiko
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-netmiko
python-netmiko is:
This library simplifies Paramiko SSH connections to network devices. It provides support for the following devices:
- Cisco IOS
- Cisco IOS-XE
- Cisco ASA
- Cisco NX-OS
- Cisco IOS-XR
- Cisco WLC (limited testing)
- Arista vEOS
- HP ProCurve
- HP Comware (limited testing)
- Juniper Junos
- Brocade VDX (limited testing)
- F5 LTM (experimental)
- Huawei (limited testing)
- A10 (limited testing)
- Avaya ERS (limited testing)
- Avaya VSP (limited testing)
- Dell-Force10 DNOS9 (limited testing)
- OVS (experimental)
- Enterasys (experimental)
- Extreme (experiemental)
- Fortinet (experimental)
- Alcatel-Lucent SR-OS (experimental)
This package includes the module for Python 2.x.
There are three methods to install python-netmiko
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-netmiko 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-netmiko
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-netmiko
Install python-netmiko Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-netmiko
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-netmiko
Install python-netmiko 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-netmiko
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-netmiko
How To Uninstall python-netmiko on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-netmiko
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-netmiko
Uninstall python-netmiko And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-netmiko
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-netmiko
Remove python-netmiko Configurations and Data
To remove python-netmiko
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-netmiko
Remove python-netmiko configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-netmiko
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-netmiko
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-netmiko
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.