How To Install python3-xcffib on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-xcffib
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is python3-xcffib
python3-xcffib is:
xcffib is intended to be a (mostly) drop-in replacement for xpyb. xpyb has an inactive upstream, several memory leaks, is python2 only and doesn’t have pypy support. xcffib is a binding which uses CFFI, which mitigates some of the issues described above. xcffib also builds bindings for 27 of the 29 (xprint and xkb are missing) X extensions in 1.10.
There are three methods to install python3-xcffib
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-xcffib 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-xcffib
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-xcffib
Install python3-xcffib Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-xcffib
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-xcffib
Install python3-xcffib 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-xcffib
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-xcffib
How To Uninstall python3-xcffib on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the python3-xcffib
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-xcffib
Uninstall python3-xcffib And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-xcffib
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-xcffib
Remove python3-xcffib Configurations and Data
To remove python3-xcffib
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-xcffib
Remove python3-xcffib configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-xcffib
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-xcffib
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-xcffib
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.