How to Install Python chardet package on Ubuntu?

Chardet is the python module that is mainly used to detect the character encoding in a text file. Or we can say that this module is used to take a sequence of bytes in unknown characters encoding and try to find the encoding so the user can read the text. In this article, we will be looking at the stepwise procedure to install the python-chardet for Python in Linux.

Installing chardet for Python on Linux

Follow the below steps to install Python-chardet in Linux:

Step 1: Check if Python is installed or not on your system. Here, we run the below command in the terminal of the Linux to check if the Python is already installed in the system or not. In case Python is already installed on your system then the output will be the current version of Python and if it is not installed it will throw an error. For installing python in your system refer to How to Install Python.

python3.9 --version

Step 2: Updates information and its dependencies. This step is to update the Linux used by the user to get the latest version so that it can make the process much faster and the system updates will make the installing easily without facing any issue.

sudo apt-get update

Step 3: Install the chardet. Here, it is the final step to install the chardet in python just the user needs to type the below-mentioned command in the working Linux terminal and the chardet will be successfully installed in the system.

sudo apt-get install python-chardet 

Verifying chardet installation on Linux

For ensuring the installation of chardet on our system, we can use the following import command in the Python terminal. If there is an error while importing the module then it means it is not installed properly.

import chardet