How To Install python-guessit on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-guessit
on Debian 9.
What is python-guessit
python-guessit is:
GuessIt is a Python library that tries to extract as much information as possible from a video file. It has a very powerful filename matcher that allows one to guess a lot of metadata from a video using only its filename. This matcher works with both movies and TV show episodes.
This package contains the Python 2 module.
There are three methods to install python-guessit
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-guessit 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-guessit
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-guessit
Install python-guessit Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-guessit
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-guessit
Install python-guessit 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-guessit
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-guessit
How To Uninstall python-guessit on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-guessit
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-guessit
Uninstall python-guessit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-guessit
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-guessit
Remove python-guessit Configurations and Data
To remove python-guessit
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-guessit
Remove python-guessit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-guessit
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-guessit
Dependencies
python-guessit have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-guessit
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.