How To Install python-babelfish on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-babelfish on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-babelfish is library to work with countries and languages (Python 2)

Introduction

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

What is python-babelfish

python-babelfish is:

Babelfish makes it easy to work with countries, languages, scripts, ISO codes and IETF codes from Python. It has converters between all different data can be extended to use custom converters and data.

This is the Python 2 version of the package.

There are three methods to install python-babelfish 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-babelfish 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-babelfish using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python-babelfish

Install python-babelfish Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-babelfish

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-babelfish

How To Uninstall python-babelfish on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-babelfish

Uninstall python-babelfish And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-babelfish

Remove python-babelfish Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-babelfish

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-babelfish have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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