How To Install python-lesscpy on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-lesscpy on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-lesscpy is LessCss Compiler for Python 2.x

Introduction

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

What is python-lesscpy

python-lesscpy is:

Lesscpy is a compiler written in Python for the lesscss language. It is very useful if node.js can’t be installed in the environment. Not all features of lesscss are supported (yet). Some features wil probably never be supported (JavaScript evaluation).

This program uses PLY (Python Lex-Yacc) to tokenize/parse the input and is considerably slower than the nodejs compiler.

This package provides the Python 2.x module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-lesscpy

Install python-lesscpy Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-lesscpy

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-lesscpy

How To Uninstall python-lesscpy on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-lesscpy

Uninstall python-lesscpy And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-lesscpy

Remove python-lesscpy Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-lesscpy

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-lesscpy have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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