How To Install python-ftp-cloudfs on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-ftp-cloudfs on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-ftp-cloudfs is FTP interface to Rackspace Cloud Files and OpenStack - Python lib

Introduction

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

What is python-ftp-cloudfs

python-ftp-cloudfs is:

FTP-CloudFS is an FTP server acting as a proxy to Rackspace Cloud Files or to OpenStack Object Storage (Swift). It allows you to connect via any FTP client to do upload/download or create containers. It supports pseudo-hierarchical folders/directories as described in the Rackspace Cloud Files API and the OpenStack Object Storage API.

This package contains the Python libraries.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-ftp-cloudfs

Install python-ftp-cloudfs Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-ftp-cloudfs

Install python-ftp-cloudfs 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-ftp-cloudfs using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-ftp-cloudfs

How To Uninstall python-ftp-cloudfs on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-ftp-cloudfs

Uninstall python-ftp-cloudfs And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-ftp-cloudfs

Remove python-ftp-cloudfs Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-ftp-cloudfs

Remove python-ftp-cloudfs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-ftp-cloudfs

Dependencies

python-ftp-cloudfs have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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