How To Install python-xstatic-mdi on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-xstatic-mdi on Debian 9. python-xstatic-mdi is Material Design Icons Webfont XStatic support - Python 2.7

Introduction

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

What is python-xstatic-mdi

python-xstatic-mdi is:

XStatic is a Python web development tool for handling required static data files from external projects, such as CSS, images, and JavaScript. It provides a lightweight infrastructure to manage them via Python modules that your app can depend on in a portable, virtualenv-friendly way instead of using embedded copies.

This package contains the Python 2.7 module support for the Material Design Icons Webfont. See the description of the fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-xstatic-mdi

Install python-xstatic-mdi Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-xstatic-mdi

Install python-xstatic-mdi 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-xstatic-mdi using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-xstatic-mdi

How To Uninstall python-xstatic-mdi on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove python-xstatic-mdi

Uninstall python-xstatic-mdi And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-xstatic-mdi

Remove python-xstatic-mdi Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-xstatic-mdi

Remove python-xstatic-mdi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-xstatic-mdi

Dependencies

python-xstatic-mdi have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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