How To Install python3-libcloud on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-libcloud
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is python3-libcloud
python3-libcloud is:
libcloud is a pure Python client library for interacting with many of the popular cloud server providers using a unified API. It was created to make it easy for developers to build products that work between any of the services that it supports.
- Avoid vendor lock-in
- Use the same API to talk to many different providers
- More than 30 supported providers total
- Four main APIs: Compute, Storage, Load Balancers, DNS
- Supports Python 2.7, PyPy and Python 3.4 or newer.
Resource you can manage with Libcloud are divided in the following categories:
- Cloud Servers and Block Storage - services such as Amazon EC2 and Rackspace Cloud Servers (libcloud.compute.*)
- Cloud Object Storage and CDN - services such as Amazon S3 and Rackspace CloudFiles (libcloud.storage.*)
- Load Balancers as a Service, LBaaS (libcloud.loadbalancer.*)
- DNS as a Service, DNSaaS (libcloud.dns.*)
- Container virtualization services (libcloud.container.*)
libcloud was originally created by the folks over at Cloudkick, but has since grown into an independent free software project licensed under the Apache License (2.0).
This is the Python 3 version of the package.
There are three methods to install python3-libcloud
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-libcloud 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-libcloud
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-libcloud
Install python3-libcloud Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-libcloud
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-libcloud
Install python3-libcloud 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-libcloud
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-libcloud
How To Uninstall python3-libcloud on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the python3-libcloud
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-libcloud
Uninstall python3-libcloud And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-libcloud
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-libcloud
Remove python3-libcloud Configurations and Data
To remove python3-libcloud
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-libcloud
Remove python3-libcloud configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-libcloud
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-libcloud
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-libcloud
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.