How To Install python-rlp on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-rlp
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-rlp
python-rlp is:
The purpose of RLP (Recursive Length Prefix) is to encode arbitrarily nested arrays of binary data, and RLP is the main encoding method used to serialize objects in Ethereum.
This package installs the library for Python 2.
There are three methods to install python-rlp
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-rlp 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-rlp
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-rlp
Install python-rlp Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-rlp
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-rlp
Install python-rlp 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-rlp
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-rlp
How To Uninstall python-rlp on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-rlp
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-rlp
Uninstall python-rlp And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-rlp
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-rlp
Remove python-rlp Configurations and Data
To remove python-rlp
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-rlp
Remove python-rlp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-rlp
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-rlp
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-rlp
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.