How To Install python-requests-unixsocket on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-requests-unixsocket on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-requests-unixsocket
python-requests-unixsocket is:
The requests-unixsocket makes it possible to talk using the HTTP protocol via a UNIX domain socket. Internally, requests-unixsocket uses monkeypatching to use the functionality of requests while making minimal changes.
Requests allow you to send HTTP/1.1 requests. You can add headers, form data, multipart files, and parameters with simple Python dictionaries, and access the response data in the same way. It’s powered by httplib and urllib3, but it does all the hard work and crazy hacks for you.
This package contains the Python 2.7 module.
There are three methods to install python-requests-unixsocket 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-unixsocket 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-unixsocket using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-requests-unixsocket
Install python-requests-unixsocket Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-requests-unixsocket using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-requests-unixsocket
Install python-requests-unixsocket 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-unixsocket using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-requests-unixsocket
How To Uninstall python-requests-unixsocket on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-requests-unixsocket package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-requests-unixsocket
Uninstall python-requests-unixsocket And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-requests-unixsocket 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-unixsocket
Remove python-requests-unixsocket Configurations and Data
To remove python-requests-unixsocket configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-requests-unixsocket
Remove python-requests-unixsocket configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-requests-unixsocket configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-requests-unixsocket
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-requests-unixsocket package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
