How To Install python-requests-doc on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-requests-doc on Ubuntu.

What is `python-requests-doc`

python-requests-doc 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 documentation.

There are three methods to install python-requests-doc on Ubuntu. 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-requests-doc 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-requests-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python-requests-doc

Install python-requests-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-requests-doc

Install python-requests-doc 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-requests-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-requests-doc

How To Uninstall python-requests-doc on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove python-requests-doc

Uninstall python-requests-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-requests-doc

Remove python-requests-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-requests-doc

Remove python-requests-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-requests-doc

Dependencies

python-requests-doc have the following dependencies:

libjs-sphinxdoc

References

python-requests-doc website

Summary

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