How To Install sixer on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sixer on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is sixer
sixer is:
Sixer is a tool adding Python 3 support to a Python 2 project. It was written to produces patches to port OpenStack to Python 3. It is focused on supporting Python 2.7 and 3.4.
It uses basic regular expressions to find code which needs to be modified. It emits warnings when code was not patched or looks suspicious.
This package contains the Python 3.x module.
There are three methods to install sixer 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 sixer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sixer using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sixer
Install sixer Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sixer using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sixer
Install sixer 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 sixer using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sixer
How To Uninstall sixer on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the sixer package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sixer
Uninstall sixer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sixer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sixer
Remove sixer Configurations and Data
To remove sixer configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sixer
Remove sixer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sixer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sixer
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sixer package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
