How To Install python3-ssdeep on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-ssdeep
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is python3-ssdeep
python3-ssdeep is:
This is a straightforward Python wrapper for ssdeep by Jesse Kornblum, which is a library for computing context triggered piecewise hashes (CTPH). Also called fuzzy hashes, CTPH can match inputs that have homologies. Such inputs have sequences of identical bytes in the same order, although bytes in between these sequences may be different in both content and length.
This package contains the extension built for Python 3.x.
There are three methods to install python3-ssdeep
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-ssdeep 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-ssdeep
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-ssdeep
Install python3-ssdeep Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-ssdeep
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-ssdeep
Install python3-ssdeep 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-ssdeep
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-ssdeep
How To Uninstall python3-ssdeep on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the python3-ssdeep
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-ssdeep
Uninstall python3-ssdeep And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-ssdeep
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-ssdeep
Remove python3-ssdeep Configurations and Data
To remove python3-ssdeep
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-ssdeep
Remove python3-ssdeep configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-ssdeep
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-ssdeep
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-ssdeep
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.