How To Install python3-crontab on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-crontab
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is python3-crontab
python3-crontab is:
python-crontab is a Python module for reading and writing crontab files and accessing the system crontabs automatically and simply using a direct API. This package includes the module for python3.
Features include:
- Displaying and modifying system and user crontab files
- Adding comments to be displayed with jobs
- Validating jobs
- Searching for jobs
There are three methods to install python3-crontab
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-crontab 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-crontab
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-crontab
Install python3-crontab Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-crontab
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-crontab
Install python3-crontab 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-crontab
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-crontab
How To Uninstall python3-crontab on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the python3-crontab
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-crontab
Uninstall python3-crontab And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-crontab
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-crontab
Remove python3-crontab Configurations and Data
To remove python3-crontab
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-crontab
Remove python3-crontab configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-crontab
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-crontab
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-crontab
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.