How To Install python-dominate on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-dominate on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-dominate is Python 2 library for creating and manipulating HTML documents

Introduction

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

What is python-dominate

python-dominate is:

Dominate is a Python library for creating and manipulating HTML documents using an elegant DOM API. It allows you to write HTML pages in pure Python very concisely, which eliminate the need to learn another template language, and to take advantage of the more powerful features of Python.

This package installs the library for Python 2.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-dominate

Install python-dominate Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-dominate

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-dominate

How To Uninstall python-dominate on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-dominate

Uninstall python-dominate And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-dominate

Remove python-dominate Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-dominate

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-dominate have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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