How To Install python-requests-file on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-requests-file on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-requests-file is File transport adapter for Requests - Python 2.X

Introduction

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

What is python-requests-file

python-requests-file is:

Requests-File is a transport adapter for use with the Requests Python library to allow local filesystem access via file:// URLs.

Features:

  • Will open and read local files
  • Might set a Content-Length header
  • That’s about it

No encoding information is set in the response object, so be careful using Response.text: the chardet library will be used to convert the file to a unicode type and it may not detect what you actually want.

EACCES is converted to a 403 status code, and ENOENT is converted to a 404. All other IOError types are converted to a 400.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-requests-file

Install python-requests-file Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-requests-file

Install python-requests-file 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-requests-file using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-requests-file

How To Uninstall python-requests-file on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-requests-file

Uninstall python-requests-file And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-requests-file

Remove python-requests-file Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-requests-file

Remove python-requests-file configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-requests-file

Dependencies

python-requests-file have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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