How To Install python3-asgiref 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 python3-asgiref on Ubuntu.

What is `python3-asgiref`

python3-asgiref is:

ASGI (Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface) is a standard for Python asynchronous web apps and servers to communicate with each other, and positioned as an asynchronous successor to WSGI.

It includes ASGI base libraries, such as:

Sync-to-async and async-to-sync function wrappers, asgiref.sync
Server base classes, asgiref.server
A WSGI-to-ASGI adapter, in asgiref.wsgi

This package contains the Python 3 version of the library.

There are three methods to install python3-asgiref 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 python3-asgiref 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-asgiref using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-asgiref

Install python3-asgiref Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-asgiref using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-asgiref

Install python3-asgiref 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-asgiref using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-asgiref

How To Uninstall python3-asgiref on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the python3-asgiref package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-asgiref

Uninstall python3-asgiref And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-asgiref and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-asgiref

Remove python3-asgiref Configurations and Data

To remove python3-asgiref configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-asgiref

Remove python3-asgiref configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-asgiref configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-asgiref

Dependencies

python3-asgiref have the following dependencies:

References

python3-asgiref website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-asgiref package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.