How To Install python3-invoke on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-invoke on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python3-invoke
python3-invoke is:
Invoke is a Python (2.6+ and 3.2+) task execution tool and library, drawing inspiration from various sources to arrive at a powerful and clean feature set.
Like Ruby’s Rake tool and Invoke’s own predecessor Fabric 1.x, it provides a clean, high level API for running shell commands and defining/organizing task functions from a tasks.py file.
From GNU Make, it inherits an emphasis on minimal boilerplate for common patterns and the ability to run multiple tasks in a single invocation.
Following the lead of most Unix CLI applications, it offers a traditional flag-based style of command-line parsing, deriving flag names and value types from task signatures.
Like many of its predecessors, it offers advanced features as well: namespacing, task aliasing, before/after hooks, parallel execution and more.
This package contains the Python 3.x module.
There are three methods to install python3-invoke 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-invoke 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-invoke using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-invoke
Install python3-invoke Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-invoke using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-invoke
Install python3-invoke 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-invoke using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-invoke
How To Uninstall python3-invoke on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python3-invoke package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-invoke
Uninstall python3-invoke And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-invoke and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-invoke
Remove python3-invoke Configurations and Data
To remove python3-invoke configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-invoke
Remove python3-invoke configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-invoke configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-invoke
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-invoke package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
