How To Install python-redmine on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-redmine on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-redmine
python-redmine is:
Python Redmine is a library for communicating with a Redmine project management application. Redmine exposes some of it’s data via RESTful (Representational State Transfer) application programming interface (API) for which Python Redmine provides a simple but powerful Pythonic API inspired by a well-known Django object-relational mapping (ORM).
This is the Python 2 version of the package.
There are three methods to install python-redmine 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-redmine 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-redmine using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-redmine
Install python-redmine Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-redmine using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-redmine
Install python-redmine 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-redmine using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-redmine
How To Uninstall python-redmine on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-redmine package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-redmine
Uninstall python-redmine And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-redmine and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-redmine
Remove python-redmine Configurations and Data
To remove python-redmine configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-redmine
Remove python-redmine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-redmine configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-redmine
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-redmine package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
