How To Install python-rarfile on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-rarfile
on Debian 9.
What is python-rarfile
python-rarfile is:
This is a Python module for RAR archive reading. The interface is made a zipfile like as possible. It supports both RAR 2.x and 3.x archives, multi volumes archives, unicode filenames, but the password protected are not supported in this version.
This is the python2 version of the package.
There are three methods to install python-rarfile
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-rarfile 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-rarfile
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-rarfile
Install python-rarfile Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-rarfile
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-rarfile
Install python-rarfile 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-rarfile
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-rarfile
How To Uninstall python-rarfile on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-rarfile
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-rarfile
Uninstall python-rarfile And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-rarfile
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-rarfile
Remove python-rarfile Configurations and Data
To remove python-rarfile
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-rarfile
Remove python-rarfile configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-rarfile
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-rarfile
Dependencies
python-rarfile have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-rarfile
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.