How To Install python3-bs4 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-bs4 on Ubuntu.
What is python3-bs4
python3-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 3.x.
There are three methods to install python3-bs4 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-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 python3-bs4 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-bs4
Install python3-bs4 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-bs4 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-bs4
Install python3-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 python3-bs4 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-bs4
How To Uninstall python3-bs4 on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the python3-bs4 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-bs4
Uninstall python3-bs4 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-bs4 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-bs4
Remove python3-bs4 Configurations and Data
To remove python3-bs4 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-bs4
Remove python3-bs4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-bs4 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-bs4
Dependencies
python3-bs4 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-bs4 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.