How To Install python-positional on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-positional on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-positional is enforce positional or key-word arguments - Python 2.7

Introduction

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

What is python-positional

python-positional is:

The Positional Python module provides a decorator which enforces only some args may be passed positionally. The idea and some of the code was taken from the oauth2 client of the google-api client. The decorator makes it easy to support Python 3 style key-word only parameters.

This package contains the Python 2.7 module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-positional

Install python-positional Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-positional

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-positional

How To Uninstall python-positional on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-positional

Uninstall python-positional And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-positional

Remove python-positional Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-positional

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-positional have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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