How To Install python-gdata on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-gdata
on Debian 9.
What is python-gdata
python-gdata is:
The GData (Google data) APIs provide a simple protocol for reading and writing data on the web.
Each of the following Google services provides a Google data API:
- Base
- Blogger
- Calendar
- Code Search
- Contacts
- Document List
- Google Apps Provisioning
- Notebook
- Picasa Web Albums
- Spreadsheets
- YouTube
The Google data Python client library provides a library and source code that make it easy to access data through Google data APIs.
There are three methods to install python-gdata
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-gdata 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-gdata
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-gdata
Install python-gdata Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-gdata
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-gdata
Install python-gdata 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-gdata
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-gdata
How To Uninstall python-gdata on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-gdata
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-gdata
Uninstall python-gdata And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-gdata
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-gdata
Remove python-gdata Configurations and Data
To remove python-gdata
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-gdata
Remove python-gdata configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-gdata
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-gdata
Dependencies
python-gdata have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-gdata
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.