How To Install python-smartypants on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-smartypants on Debian 9.
What is python-smartypants
python-smartypants is:
It can perform the following transformations:
- Straight quotes ( " and ’ ) into “curly” quote HTML entities
- Backticks-style quotes (``like this’’) into “curly” quote HTML entities
- Dashes (– and —) into en- and em-dash entities
- Three consecutive dots (… or . . .) into an ellipsis entity
This means you can write, edit, and save your posts using plain old ASCII straight quotes, plain dashes, and plain dots, but your published posts (and final HTML output) will appear with smart quotes, em-dashes, and proper ellipses.
SmartyPants does not modify characters within <pre>, <code>, <kbd>, <math>
or <script> tag blocks. Typically, these tags are used to display text
where smart quotes and other “smart punctuation” would not be appropriate,
such as source code or example markup.
There are three methods to install python-smartypants 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-smartypants 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-smartypants using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-smartypants
Install python-smartypants Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-smartypants using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-smartypants
Install python-smartypants 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-smartypants using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-smartypants
How To Uninstall python-smartypants on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-smartypants package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-smartypants
Uninstall python-smartypants And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-smartypants and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-smartypants
Remove python-smartypants Configurations and Data
To remove python-smartypants configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-smartypants
Remove python-smartypants configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-smartypants configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-smartypants
Dependencies
python-smartypants have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-smartypants package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
