How To Install tox on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tox
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is tox
tox is:
Tox as is a generic virtualenv management and test command line tool you can use for:
- checking your package installs correctly with different Python versions and interpreters
- running your tests in each of the environments, configuring your test tool of choice
- acting as a frontend to Continuous Integration servers, greatly reducing boilerplate and merging CI and shell-based testing.
There are three methods to install tox
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 tox Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tox
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tox
Install tox Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tox
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tox
Install tox 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 tox
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tox
How To Uninstall tox on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the tox
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tox
Uninstall tox And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tox
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tox
Remove tox Configurations and Data
To remove tox
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tox
Remove tox configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tox
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tox
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tox
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.