How To Install python3-versiontools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-versiontools on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python3-versiontools
python3-versiontools is:
versiontools is a Python module providing a smart replacement for plain tuple used in version. It has following features:
- A piece of code that allows you to keep a single version definition inside your package or module. No more hacks in setup.py, no more duplicates in setup.py and somewhere else. Just one version per package.
- Version objects can produce nice version strings for released files that are compliant with PEP 386. Releases, alphas, betas, development snaphots. All of those get good version strings out of the box.
- Version objects understand the VCS used by your project. Git, Mercurial and Bazaar are supported out of the box. Custom systems can be added by 3rd party plugins.
- Version object that compares as a tuple of values and sorts properly.
- Zero-dependency install! If all you care about is handling setup() to get nice tarball names then you don’t need to depend on versiontools (no setup_requires, no install_requires!). You will need to bundle a small support module though.
This is the Python 3 version of the package.
There are three methods to install python3-versiontools 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-versiontools 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-versiontools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-versiontools
Install python3-versiontools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-versiontools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-versiontools
Install python3-versiontools 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-versiontools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-versiontools
How To Uninstall python3-versiontools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python3-versiontools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-versiontools
Uninstall python3-versiontools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-versiontools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-versiontools
Remove python3-versiontools Configurations and Data
To remove python3-versiontools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-versiontools
Remove python3-versiontools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-versiontools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-versiontools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-versiontools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
