How To Install python3-kitchen on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-kitchen on Ubuntu 18.04. python3-kitchen is Python library of containers, text and i18n helpers (Python 3)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-kitchen on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is python3-kitchen

python3-kitchen is:

The kitchen Python package aims at gathering in one place all the snippets of code that the author originally carried around from project to project to ease the development.

A non-exhaustive list of the features provided by kitchen:

  • helpers for text and specifically unicode handling i18n support
  • a dictionary that treats unicode and str strings as different values
  • An helper function to change any non-list value into a single-element list
  • Tools to help deal with PEP386 version format

This package installs the library for Python 3.

There are three methods to install python3-kitchen 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-kitchen 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-kitchen using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-kitchen

Install python3-kitchen Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-kitchen using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-kitchen

Install python3-kitchen 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-kitchen using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-kitchen

How To Uninstall python3-kitchen on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the python3-kitchen package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-kitchen

Uninstall python3-kitchen And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-kitchen and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-kitchen

Remove python3-kitchen Configurations and Data

To remove python3-kitchen configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-kitchen

Remove python3-kitchen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-kitchen configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-kitchen

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-kitchen package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.