How To Install python-googleapi on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-googleapi on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-googleapi is Google APIs Client Library - Python 2.x

Introduction

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

What is python-googleapi

python-googleapi is:

This package contains the Google APIs Client Library for Python, which is the core Python library for accessing. Samples are available in the python-googleapi-samples package.

This package provides the Python 2.x module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-googleapi

Install python-googleapi Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-googleapi

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-googleapi

How To Uninstall python-googleapi on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-googleapi

Uninstall python-googleapi And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-googleapi

Remove python-googleapi Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-googleapi

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-googleapi have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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