How To Install python-fabio on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-fabio on Debian 9.
What is python-fabio
python-fabio is:
FabIO is an I/O library for images produced by 2D X-ray detectors and written in Python. FabIO support images detectors from a dozen of companies (including Mar, Dectris, ADSC, Hamamatsu, Oxford, …), for a total of 20 different file formats (like CBF, EDF, TIFF, …) and offers an unified interface to their headers (as a Python dictionary) and datasets (as a numpy ndarray of integers or floats)
This is the Python 2 version of the package.
There are three methods to install python-fabio 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-fabio 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-fabio using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-fabio
Install python-fabio Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-fabio using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-fabio
Install python-fabio 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-fabio using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-fabio
How To Uninstall python-fabio on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-fabio package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-fabio
Uninstall python-fabio And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-fabio and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-fabio
Remove python-fabio Configurations and Data
To remove python-fabio configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-fabio
Remove python-fabio configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-fabio configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-fabio
Dependencies
python-fabio have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-fabio package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
