How To Install python-owslib on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-owslib on Debian 9.
What is python-owslib
python-owslib is:
OWSLib is a Python package for client programming with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web service (hence OWS) interface standards, and their related content models.
Full documentation is available at http://geopython.github.io/OWSLib
OWSLib provides a common API for accessing service metadata and wrappers for numerous OGC Web Service interfaces.
This package provides the Python 2 version of the library.
There are three methods to install python-owslib 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-owslib 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-owslib using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-owslib
Install python-owslib Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-owslib using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-owslib
Install python-owslib 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-owslib using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-owslib
How To Uninstall python-owslib on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-owslib package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-owslib
Uninstall python-owslib And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-owslib and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-owslib
Remove python-owslib Configurations and Data
To remove python-owslib configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-owslib
Remove python-owslib configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-owslib configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-owslib
Dependencies
python-owslib have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-owslib package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
