How To Install python3-tidylib on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-tidylib on Ubuntu 18.04. python3-tidylib is Python 3 wrapper for HTML Tidy (tidylib)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-tidylib on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is python3-tidylib

python3-tidylib is:

PyTidyLib is a Python package that wraps the HTML Tidy library. This allows you, from Python code, to “fix” invalid (X)HTML markup. Some of the library’s many capabilities include:

  • Clean up unclosed tags and unescaped characters such as ampersands
  • Output HTML 4 or XHTML, strict or transitional, and add missing doctypes
  • Convert named entities to numeric entities, which can then be used in XML documents without an HTML doctype.
  • Clean up HTML from programs such as Word (to an extent)
  • Indent the output, including proper (i.e. no) indenting for pre elements, which some (X)HTML indenting code overlooks.

This is the Python 3 version of the module.

There are three methods to install python3-tidylib 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-tidylib 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-tidylib using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-tidylib

Install python3-tidylib Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python3-tidylib

Install python3-tidylib 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-tidylib using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-tidylib

How To Uninstall python3-tidylib on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove python3-tidylib

Uninstall python3-tidylib And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-tidylib and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-tidylib

Remove python3-tidylib Configurations and Data

To remove python3-tidylib configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-tidylib

Remove python3-tidylib configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-tidylib

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-tidylib package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.