How To Install python-awsauth on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-awsauth on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-awsauth is AWS authentication for Amazon S3 for the python-requests module

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-awsauth on Debian 10.

What is python-awsauth

python-awsauth is:

Requests allow you to send HTTP/1.1 requests. You can add headers, form data, multipart files, and parameters with simple Python dictionaries, and access the response data in the same way. It’s powered by httplib and urllib3, but it does all the hard work and crazy hacks for you.

This module adds AWS authentication for Amazon S3 based on the python-requests module.

There are three methods to install python-awsauth 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 python-awsauth Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-awsauth

Install python-awsauth Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-awsauth

Install python-awsauth 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 python-awsauth using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-awsauth

How To Uninstall python-awsauth on Debian 10

To uninstall only the python-awsauth package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-awsauth

Uninstall python-awsauth And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-awsauth

Remove python-awsauth Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-awsauth

Remove python-awsauth configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-awsauth

Dependencies

python-awsauth have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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