How To Install pypy-simplejson on Debian 10

Learn how to install pypy-simplejson on Debian 10 with this tutorial. pypy-simplejson is simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder/decoder for Python - PyPy

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pypy-simplejson on Debian 10.

What is pypy-simplejson

pypy-simplejson is:

simplejson is a simple, fast, complete, correct and extensible JSON http://json.org encoder and decoder.

The encoder may be subclassed to provide serialization in any kind of situation, without any special support by the objects to be serialized (somewhat like pickle).

The decoder can handle incoming JSON strings of any specified encoding (UTF-8 by default).

simplejson is the externally maintained development version of the json library included with Python 2.6 and Python 3.0, but maintains backwards compatibility with Python 2.5.

This package contains the PyPy module.

There are three methods to install pypy-simplejson on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install pypy-simplejson Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install pypy-simplejson using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install pypy-simplejson

Install pypy-simplejson Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pypy-simplejson

Install pypy-simplejson 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install pypy-simplejson using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pypy-simplejson

How To Uninstall pypy-simplejson on Debian 10

To uninstall only the pypy-simplejson package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pypy-simplejson

Uninstall pypy-simplejson And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pypy-simplejson and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pypy-simplejson

Remove pypy-simplejson Configurations and Data

To remove pypy-simplejson configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pypy-simplejson

Remove pypy-simplejson configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pypy-simplejson

Dependencies

pypy-simplejson have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pypy-simplejson package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.