How To Install python-waitress on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-waitress on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-waitress
python-waitress is:
Waitress is meant to be a production-quality pure-Python WSGI server with very acceptable performance. It has no dependencies except ones which live in the Python standard library. It runs on CPython on Unix and Windows under Python 2.7+ and Python 3.3+. It is also known to run on PyPy 1.6.0 on UNIX. It supports HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1.
There are three methods to install python-waitress 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-waitress 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-waitress using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-waitress
Install python-waitress Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-waitress using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-waitress
Install python-waitress 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-waitress using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-waitress
How To Uninstall python-waitress on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-waitress package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-waitress
Uninstall python-waitress And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-waitress and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-waitress
Remove python-waitress Configurations and Data
To remove python-waitress configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-waitress
Remove python-waitress configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-waitress configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-waitress
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-waitress package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.