How To Install python-tidylib on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-tidylib on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-tidylib
python-tidylib is:
PyTidyLib is a Python package that wraps the HTML Tidy library. This allows you, from Python code, to “fix” invalid (X)HTML markup. Some of the library’s many capabilities include:
- Clean up unclosed tags and unescaped characters such as ampersands
- Output HTML 4 or XHTML, strict or transitional, and add missing doctypes
- Convert named entities to numeric entities, which can then be used in XML documents without an HTML doctype.
- Clean up HTML from programs such as Word (to an extent)
- Indent the output, including proper (i.e. no) indenting for pre elements, which some (X)HTML indenting code overlooks.
This is the Python 2 version of the module.
There are three methods to install python-tidylib 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-tidylib 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-tidylib using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-tidylib
Install python-tidylib Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-tidylib using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-tidylib
Install python-tidylib 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-tidylib using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-tidylib
How To Uninstall python-tidylib on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-tidylib package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-tidylib
Uninstall python-tidylib And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-tidylib and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-tidylib
Remove python-tidylib Configurations and Data
To remove python-tidylib configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-tidylib
Remove python-tidylib configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-tidylib configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-tidylib
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-tidylib package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
