How To Install python3-requests-file on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-requests-file on Kali Linux.

What is python3-requests-file

python3-requests-file is:

Requests-File is a transport adapter for use with the Requests Python library to allow local filesystem access via file:// URLs.

Features:

• Will open and read local files
• Might set a Content-Length header
• That’s about it

No encoding information is set in the response object, so be careful using Response.text: the chardet library will be used to convert the file to a unicode type and it may not detect what you actually want.

EACCES is converted to a 403 status code, and ENOENT is converted to a 404. All other IOError types are converted to a 400.

This package contains the Python 3 version of the library.

There are three methods to install python3-requests-file on Kali Linux. 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-requests-file 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-requests-file using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-requests-file

Install python3-requests-file Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-requests-file using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-requests-file

Install python3-requests-file Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-requests-file using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-requests-file

How To Uninstall python3-requests-file on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the python3-requests-file package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-requests-file

Uninstall python3-requests-file And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-requests-file and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-requests-file

Remove python3-requests-file Configurations and Data

To remove python3-requests-file configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-requests-file

Remove python3-requests-file configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-requests-file configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-requests-file

Dependencies

python3-requests-file have the following dependencies:

• python3-requests
• python3-six
• python3

References

• python3-requests-file website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-requests-file package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.