How To Install python-chardet on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-chardet
on Debian 9.
What is python-chardet
python-chardet is:
Chardet takes a sequence of bytes in an unknown character encoding, and attempts to determine the encoding.
Supported encodings:
- ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16 (2 variants), UTF-32 (4 variants)
- Big5, GB2312, EUC-TW, HZ-GB-2312, ISO-2022-CN (Traditional and Simplified Chinese)
- EUC-JP, SHIFT_JIS, ISO-2022-JP (Japanese)
- EUC-KR, ISO-2022-KR (Korean)
- KOI8-R, MacCyrillic, IBM855, IBM866, ISO-8859-5, windows-1251 (Cyrillic)
- ISO-8859-2, windows-1250 (Hungarian)
- ISO-8859-5, windows-1251 (Bulgarian)
- windows-1252 (English)
- ISO-8859-7, windows-1253 (Greek)
- ISO-8859-8, windows-1255 (Visual and Logical Hebrew)
- TIS-620 (Thai)
This library is a port of the auto-detection code in Mozilla.
There are three methods to install python-chardet
on Debian 9. 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-chardet 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-chardet
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-chardet
Install python-chardet Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-chardet
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-chardet
Install python-chardet 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-chardet
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-chardet
How To Uninstall python-chardet on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-chardet
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-chardet
Uninstall python-chardet And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-chardet
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-chardet
Remove python-chardet Configurations and Data
To remove python-chardet
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-chardet
Remove python-chardet configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-chardet
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-chardet
Dependencies
python-chardet have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-chardet
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.