How To Install python-requests-file on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-requests-file on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-requests-file
python-requests-file is:
Requests-File is a transport adapter for use with the Requests Python library to allow local filesystem access via file:// URLs.
Features:
- Will open and read local files
- Might set a Content-Length header
- That’s about it
No encoding information is set in the response object, so be careful using Response.text: the chardet library will be used to convert the file to a unicode type and it may not detect what you actually want.
EACCES is converted to a 403 status code, and ENOENT is converted to a 404. All other IOError types are converted to a 400.
There are three methods to install python-requests-file 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-requests-file 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-requests-file using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-requests-file
Install python-requests-file Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-requests-file using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-requests-file
Install python-requests-file 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-requests-file using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-requests-file
How To Uninstall python-requests-file on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-requests-file package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-requests-file
Uninstall python-requests-file And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-requests-file and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-requests-file
Remove python-requests-file Configurations and Data
To remove python-requests-file configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-requests-file
Remove python-requests-file configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-requests-file configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-requests-file
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-requests-file package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
