How To Install python-nevow on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-nevow on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-nevow is Web application templating system for Python and Twisted

Introduction

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

What is python-nevow

python-nevow is:

Nevow’s main focus is on separating the HTML template from both the business logic and the display logic, while allowing the programmer to write pure Python code as much as possible. It separates your code into ‘data’ and ‘render’ functions, a simplified implementation of traditional MVC. It has various parts which can be used individually or as a whole, integrated web solution:

  • XHTML templates: contain no programming logic, only nodes tagged with nevow attributes
  • data/render methods: simplified MVC
  • stan: An s-expression-like syntax for expressing xml in pure Python
  • formless: For describing the types of objects which may be passed to methods of your classes, validating and coercing string input from either web or command-line sources, and calling your methods automatically once validation passes
  • freeform: For rendering web forms based on formless type descriptions, accepting form posts and passing them to formless validators, and rendering error forms in the event validation fails
  • livepage: Cross-browser JavaScript glue for sending client side events to the server and server side events to the client after the page has loaded, without causing the entire page to refresh

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-nevow

Install python-nevow Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-nevow

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-nevow

How To Uninstall python-nevow on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-nevow

Uninstall python-nevow And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-nevow

Remove python-nevow Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-nevow

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-nevow have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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