How To Install python-ptyprocess on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-ptyprocess on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-ptyprocess is Run a subprocess in a pseudo terminal from Python 2

Introduction

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

What is python-ptyprocess

python-ptyprocess is:

Launch a subprocess in a pseudo terminal (pty), and interact with both the process and its pty.

Sometimes, piping stdin and stdout is not enough. There might be a password prompt that doesn’t read from stdin, output that changes when it’s going to a pipe rather than a terminal, or curses-style interfaces that rely on a terminal. If you need to automate these things, running the process in a pseudo terminal (pty) is the answer.

This package installs the library for Python 2.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-ptyprocess

Install python-ptyprocess Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-ptyprocess

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-ptyprocess

How To Uninstall python-ptyprocess on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-ptyprocess

Uninstall python-ptyprocess And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-ptyprocess

Remove python-ptyprocess Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-ptyprocess

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-ptyprocess have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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