How To Install python-tidylib on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-tidylib on Debian 9. python-tidylib is Python 2 wrapper for HTML Tidy (tidylib)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-tidylib on Debian 9.

What is python-tidylib

python-tidylib is:

PyTidyLib is a Python package that wraps the HTML Tidy library. This allows you, from Python code, to ??fix?? invalid (X)HTML markup. Some of the library??s many capabilities include:

  • Clean up unclosed tags and unescaped characters such as ampersands
  • Output HTML 4 or XHTML, strict or transitional, and add missing doctypes
  • Convert named entities to numeric entities, which can then be used in XML documents without an HTML doctype.
  • Clean up HTML from programs such as Word (to an extent)
  • Indent the output, including proper (i.e. no) indenting for pre elements, which some (X)HTML indenting code overlooks.

This is the Python 2 version of the module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-tidylib

Install python-tidylib Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-tidylib

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-tidylib

How To Uninstall python-tidylib on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove python-tidylib

Uninstall python-tidylib And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python-tidylib and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-tidylib

Remove python-tidylib Configurations and Data

To remove python-tidylib configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-tidylib

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-tidylib have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-tidylib package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.