How To Install python3-lesscpy on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-lesscpy
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is python3-lesscpy
python3-lesscpy is:
Lesscpy is a compiler written in Python for the lesscss language. It is very useful if node.js can’t be installed in the environment. Not all features of lesscss are supported (yet). Some features wil probably never be supported (JavaScript evaluation).
This program uses PLY (Python Lex-Yacc) to tokenize/parse the input and is considerably slower than the nodejs compiler.
This package provides the Python 3.x module.
There are three methods to install python3-lesscpy
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-lesscpy 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-lesscpy
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-lesscpy
Install python3-lesscpy Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-lesscpy
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-lesscpy
Install python3-lesscpy 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-lesscpy
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-lesscpy
How To Uninstall python3-lesscpy on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the python3-lesscpy
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-lesscpy
Uninstall python3-lesscpy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-lesscpy
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-lesscpy
Remove python3-lesscpy Configurations and Data
To remove python3-lesscpy
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-lesscpy
Remove python3-lesscpy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-lesscpy
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-lesscpy
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-lesscpy
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.