How To Install python3-natsort on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-natsort
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python3-natsort
python3-natsort is:
natsort lets you apply natural sorting to your sequences easily, for example:
from natsort import natsorted a = [‘a2’, ‘a9’, ‘a1’, ‘a4’, ‘a10’] data = [[‘a1’, ‘a5’], [‘a1’, ‘a40’], [‘a10’, ‘a1’], [‘a2’, ‘a5’]] natsorted(a) [‘a1’, ‘a2’, ‘a4’, ‘a9’, ‘a10’ natsorted(data) [[‘a1’, ‘a5’], [‘a1’, ‘a40’], [‘a2’, ‘a5’], [‘a10’, ‘a1’]]
natsort identifies the numbers and sorts them separately from strings.
natsort comes with a shell script to use natural sorting in shell scripts. You can also execute natsort from the command line with python -m natsort.
There exists another natural sorting package for Python called python-naturalsort. You may prefer that package if you wish to only sort version numbers.
There are three methods to install python3-natsort
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-natsort 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-natsort
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-natsort
Install python3-natsort Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-natsort
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-natsort
Install python3-natsort 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-natsort
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-natsort
How To Uninstall python3-natsort on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python3-natsort
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-natsort
Uninstall python3-natsort And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-natsort
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-natsort
Remove python3-natsort Configurations and Data
To remove python3-natsort
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-natsort
Remove python3-natsort configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-natsort
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-natsort
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-natsort
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.