How To Install python3-requests on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-requests on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is python3-requests
python3-requests is:
Requests allow you to send HTTP/1.1 requests. You can add headers, form data, multipart files, and parameters with simple Python dictionaries, and access the response data in the same way. It’s powered by httplib and urllib3, but it does all the hard work and crazy hacks for you.
Features
- International Domains and URLs
- Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling
- Sessions with Cookie Persistence
- Browser-style SSL Verification
- Basic/Digest Authentication
- Elegant Key/Value Cookies
- Automatic Decompression
- Unicode Response Bodies
- Multipart File Uploads
- Connection Timeouts
This package contains the Python 3 version of the library. Task: server, ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, cloud-image, openssh-server, ubuntu-core, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install python3-requests 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 python3-requests 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-requests using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-requests
Install python3-requests Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-requests using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-requests
Install python3-requests 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-requests using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-requests
How To Uninstall python3-requests on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the python3-requests package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-requests
Uninstall python3-requests And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-requests and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-requests
Remove python3-requests Configurations and Data
To remove python3-requests configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-requests
Remove python3-requests configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-requests configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-requests
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-requests package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
