
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bandit
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is bandit
bandit is:
Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code. To
do this Bandit processes each file, builds an Abstract Syntaxt Tree (AST),
and runs appropriate plugins against the AST nodes. Once Bandit has
finished scanning all the files it generates a report.
This package is a metapackage to install the Python 2.7 or 3.x of bandit.
There are three methods to install bandit
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install bandit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bandit
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bandit
Install bandit Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bandit
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bandit
Install bandit 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 bandit
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bandit
How To Uninstall bandit on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the bandit
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bandit
Uninstall bandit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bandit
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bandit
Remove bandit Configurations and Data
To remove bandit
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bandit
Remove bandit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bandit
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bandit
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bandit
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.
