How To Install python-bitstring on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-bitstring
on Debian 10.
What is python-bitstring
python-bitstring is:
Bitstring is a pure Python module designed to help make the creation and analysis of binary data as simple and natural as possible.
Bitstrings can be constructed from integers (big and little endian), hex, octal, binary, strings or files. They can be sliced, joined, reversed, inserted into, overwritten, etc. with simple functions or slice notation. They can also be read from, searched and replaced, and navigated in, similar to a file or stream.
This package provides the Python 2 version of the module.
There are three methods to install python-bitstring
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-bitstring 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-bitstring
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-bitstring
Install python-bitstring Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-bitstring
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-bitstring
Install python-bitstring 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-bitstring
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-bitstring
How To Uninstall python-bitstring on Debian 10
To uninstall only the python-bitstring
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-bitstring
Uninstall python-bitstring And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-bitstring
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-bitstring
Remove python-bitstring Configurations and Data
To remove python-bitstring
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-bitstring
Remove python-bitstring configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-bitstring
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-bitstring
Dependencies
python-bitstring have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-bitstring
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.