How To Install python-gconf on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-gconf
on Debian 9.
What is python-gconf
python-gconf is:
This package contains modules that allow to access and manipulate the GNOME configuration database (GConf) from Python programs.
There are three methods to install python-gconf
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-gconf 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-gconf
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-gconf
Install python-gconf Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-gconf
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-gconf
Install python-gconf 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-gconf
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-gconf
How To Uninstall python-gconf on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-gconf
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-gconf
Uninstall python-gconf And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-gconf
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-gconf
Remove python-gconf Configurations and Data
To remove python-gconf
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-gconf
Remove python-gconf configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-gconf
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-gconf
Dependencies
python-gconf have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-gconf
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.