How To Install python3-lmdb on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-lmdb
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is python3-lmdb
python3-lmdb is:
Lightning Memory-Mapped Database (LMDB) is an ultra-fast, ultra-compact key-value embedded data store developed for the OpenLDAP Project. It uses memory-mapped files, so it has the read performance of a pure in-memory database while still offering the persistence of standard disk-based databases, and is only limited to the size of the virtual address space (it is not limited to the size of physical RAM).
This package contains the ’lmdb’ Python 3 extension module.
There are three methods to install python3-lmdb
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-lmdb 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-lmdb
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-lmdb
Install python3-lmdb Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-lmdb
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-lmdb
Install python3-lmdb 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-lmdb
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-lmdb
How To Uninstall python3-lmdb on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the python3-lmdb
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-lmdb
Uninstall python3-lmdb And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-lmdb
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-lmdb
Remove python3-lmdb Configurations and Data
To remove python3-lmdb
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-lmdb
Remove python3-lmdb configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-lmdb
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-lmdb
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-lmdb
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.