How To Install python3-cement on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-cement
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is python3-cement
python3-cement is:
Cement is an advanced CLI Application Framework for Python. Its goal is to introduce a standard, and feature-full platform for both simple and complex command line applications as well as support rapid development needs without sacrificing quality. Cement is flexible, and it’s use cases span from the simplicity of a micro-framework to the complexity of a mega-framework.
Features include:
- Core pieces of the framework are customizable via handlers/interfaces
- Extension handler interface to easily extend framework functionality
- Config handler supports parsing multiple config files into one config
- Argument handler parses command line arguments and merges with config
- Log handler supports console and file logging
- Plugin handler provides an interface to easily extend your application
- Hook support adds a bit of magic to apps and also ties into framework
- Handler system connects implementation classes with Interfaces
- Output handler interface renders return dictionaries to console
- Cache handler interface adds caching support for improved performance
- Controller handler supports sub-commands, and nested controllers
This package contains the Python 3 version of the library.
There are three methods to install python3-cement
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-cement 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-cement
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-cement
Install python3-cement Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-cement
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-cement
Install python3-cement 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-cement
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-cement
How To Uninstall python3-cement on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the python3-cement
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-cement
Uninstall python3-cement And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-cement
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-cement
Remove python3-cement Configurations and Data
To remove python3-cement
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-cement
Remove python3-cement configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-cement
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-cement
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-cement
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.