How To Install python3-waitress on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-waitress on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python3-waitress
python3-waitress is:
Waitress is meant to be a production-quality pure-Python WSGI server with very acceptable performance. It has no dependencies except ones which live in the Python standard library. It runs on CPython on Unix and Windows under Python 2.7+ and Python 3.3+. It is also known to run on PyPy 1.6.0 on UNIX. It supports HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1.
This is the Python 3 version of the package.
There are three methods to install python3-waitress 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-waitress 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-waitress using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-waitress
Install python3-waitress Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-waitress using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-waitress
Install python3-waitress 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-waitress using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-waitress
How To Uninstall python3-waitress on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python3-waitress package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-waitress
Uninstall python3-waitress And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-waitress and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-waitress
Remove python3-waitress Configurations and Data
To remove python3-waitress configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-waitress
Remove python3-waitress configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-waitress configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-waitress
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-waitress package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
