How To Install python-paypal on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-paypal on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-paypal is PayPal API implementation (Python 2)

Introduction

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

What is python-paypal

python-paypal is:

This package implements Paypal’s Website Payments Pro NVP API in Python. This currently includes Direct Payments (Credit card payments without a PayPal Account) and PayPal Express Checkout (Payment via a PayPal account).

python-paypal does no real validation, doesn’t hold hands, and is generally only going to handle authentication, http-level stuff, and serializing a list of keyword arguments passed to the API methods. You’ll need to read the official PayPal documentation for what key/values to pass: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/

This package installs the library for Python 2.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-paypal

Install python-paypal Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-paypal

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-paypal

How To Uninstall python-paypal on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-paypal

Uninstall python-paypal And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-paypal

Remove python-paypal Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-paypal

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-paypal have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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