How To Install python3-pkg-resources on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-pkg-resources
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is python3-pkg-resources
python3-pkg-resources is:
The pkg_resources module provides an API for Python libraries to access their resource files, and for extensible applications and frameworks to automatically discover plugins. It also provides runtime support for using C extensions that are inside zipfile-format eggs, support for merging packages that have separately-distributed modules or subpackages, and APIs for managing Python’s current “working set” of active packages. Task: minimal, ubuntu-core
There are three methods to install python3-pkg-resources
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-pkg-resources 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-pkg-resources
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-pkg-resources
Install python3-pkg-resources Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-pkg-resources
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-pkg-resources
Install python3-pkg-resources 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-pkg-resources
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-pkg-resources
How To Uninstall python3-pkg-resources on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the python3-pkg-resources
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-pkg-resources
Uninstall python3-pkg-resources And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-pkg-resources
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-pkg-resources
Remove python3-pkg-resources Configurations and Data
To remove python3-pkg-resources
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-pkg-resources
Remove python3-pkg-resources configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-pkg-resources
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-pkg-resources
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-pkg-resources
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.