Which Ubuntu package provides the pypi future package?

Which ubuntu package would correspond to the following package at pypi:future (not futures or concurrent.futures)

3 Answers

__future__ belongs to the Python standard library as provided by the libpython2.7-minimal package:

$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/python2.7/__future__.py
libpython2.7-minimal:amd64: /usr/lib/python2.7/__future__.py

It should already be installed on any version of Ubuntu. In older versions, it would be provided by python2.7-minimal, but still present anyway.

In Ubuntu 16.04 and later releases Python Future is available as python-future in the default Ubuntu repositories:

Install:

sudo apt install python-future

I don't think this package is packaged for Ubuntu.

Instead of doing sudo apt-get install python-future (which does not work, of course) you can easily do:

$ sudo pip install future

which will install the package system wide, having the same effect.