How To Install python-bs4 on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-bs4 on Ubuntu 20.04. python-bs4 is error-tolerant HTML parser for Python

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-bs4 on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is python-bs4

python-bs4 is:

Beautiful Soup is a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files. It works with your favorite parser to provide idiomatic ways of navigating, searching, and modifying the parse tree. It commonly saves programmers hours or days of work.

This package contains BeautifulSoup 4, for Python 2.x. Task: ubuntustudio-video, ubuntustudio-graphics

There are three methods to install python-bs4 on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install python-bs4 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install python-bs4 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python-bs4

Install python-bs4 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python-bs4 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python-bs4

Install python-bs4 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 python-bs4 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-bs4

How To Uninstall python-bs4 on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the python-bs4 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-bs4

Uninstall python-bs4 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python-bs4 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-bs4

Remove python-bs4 Configurations and Data

To remove python-bs4 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-bs4

Remove python-bs4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python-bs4 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-bs4

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-bs4 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.