How To Install python3-redis on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-redis
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is python3-redis
python3-redis is:
Redis is a key-value database in a similar vein to memcache but the dataset is non-volatile. Redis additionally provides native support for atomically manipulating and querying data structures such as lists and sets.
The dataset is stored entirely in memory and periodically flushed to disk.
This package contains Python bindings to Redis.
This is the Python 3 version of the package.
There are three methods to install python3-redis
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-redis 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-redis
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-redis
Install python3-redis Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-redis
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-redis
Install python3-redis 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-redis
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-redis
How To Uninstall python3-redis on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the python3-redis
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-redis
Uninstall python3-redis And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-redis
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-redis
Remove python3-redis Configurations and Data
To remove python3-redis
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-redis
Remove python3-redis configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-redis
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-redis
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-redis
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.