How To Install python-colorama on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-colorama on Debian 10.
What is python-colorama
python-colorama is:
Python-colorama provides a simple cross-platform API to print colored terminal text from Python applications.
ANSI escape character sequences are commonly used to produce colored terminal text on Unix. Colorama provides some shortcuts to generate these sequences.
This has the happy side-effect that existing applications or libraries which already use ANSI sequences to produce colored output on Linux.
This package provides the module for Python 2.
There are three methods to install python-colorama 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-colorama 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-colorama using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-colorama
Install python-colorama Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-colorama using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-colorama
Install python-colorama 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-colorama using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-colorama
How To Uninstall python-colorama on Debian 10
To uninstall only the python-colorama package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-colorama
Uninstall python-colorama And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-colorama and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-colorama
Remove python-colorama Configurations and Data
To remove python-colorama configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-colorama
Remove python-colorama configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-colorama configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-colorama
Dependencies
python-colorama have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-colorama package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
