How To Install python-weboob on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-weboob
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-weboob
python-weboob is:
Weboob is a project helping interaction between applications and websites.
This package contains:
- the weboob library
- applications base classes (command-line REPL and Qt4)
- backends base classes
- weboob: global user friendly tool to load applications
- weboob-config: command-line configuration program
Applications and backends are distributed in other packages.
There are three methods to install python-weboob
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-weboob 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-weboob
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-weboob
Install python-weboob Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-weboob
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-weboob
Install python-weboob 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-weboob
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-weboob
How To Uninstall python-weboob on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-weboob
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-weboob
Uninstall python-weboob And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-weboob
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-weboob
Remove python-weboob Configurations and Data
To remove python-weboob
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-weboob
Remove python-weboob configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-weboob
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-weboob
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-weboob
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.