How To Install python3-brotli on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-brotli on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python3-brotli
python3-brotli is:
Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed with deflate but offers more dense compression.
This package installs a Python 3 module.
There are three methods to install python3-brotli 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 python3-brotli Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-brotli using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-brotli
Install python3-brotli Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-brotli using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-brotli
Install python3-brotli 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 python3-brotli using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-brotli
How To Uninstall python3-brotli on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python3-brotli package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-brotli
Uninstall python3-brotli And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-brotli and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-brotli
Remove python3-brotli Configurations and Data
To remove python3-brotli configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-brotli
Remove python3-brotli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-brotli configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-brotli
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-brotli package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
