How To Install python-yapps on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-yapps on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-yapps is Yet Another Python Parser System

Introduction

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

What is python-yapps

python-yapps is:

YAPPS is an easy to use parser generator that is written in Python and generates Python code. There are several parser generator systems already available for Python, but this parser has different goals: Yapps is simple, very easy to use, and produces human-readable parsers.

This package contains the Python2 runtime support for parsers generated with yapps2.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-yapps

Install python-yapps Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-yapps

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-yapps

How To Uninstall python-yapps on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-yapps

Uninstall python-yapps And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-yapps

Remove python-yapps Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-yapps

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-yapps have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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