How To Install python-simplejson on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-simplejson on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-simplejson
python-simplejson is:
simplejson is a simple, fast, complete, correct and extensible JSON http://json.org encoder and decoder.
The encoder may be subclassed to provide serialization in any kind of situation, without any special support by the objects to be serialized (somewhat like pickle).
The decoder can handle incoming JSON strings of any specified encoding (UTF-8 by default).
simplejson is the externally maintained development version of the json library included with Python 2.6 and Python 3.0, but maintains backwards compatibility with Python 2.5.
This package contains the Python 2.x module.
There are three methods to install python-simplejson 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-simplejson 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-simplejson using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-simplejson
Install python-simplejson Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-simplejson using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-simplejson
Install python-simplejson 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-simplejson using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-simplejson
How To Uninstall python-simplejson on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-simplejson package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-simplejson
Uninstall python-simplejson And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-simplejson and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-simplejson
Remove python-simplejson Configurations and Data
To remove python-simplejson configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-simplejson
Remove python-simplejson configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-simplejson configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-simplejson
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-simplejson package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
