How To Install python-zinnia on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-zinnia on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-zinnia is Python binding for the zinnia library

Introduction

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

What is python-zinnia

python-zinnia is:

Zinnia provides a simple, customizable, and portable dynamic OCR system for hand-written input, based on Support Vector Machines.

Zinnia simply receives user pen strokes as coordinate data and outputs the best matching characters sorted by SVM confidence. To maintain portability, it has no rendering functionality. In addition to recognition, Zinnia provides a training module capable of creating highly efficient handwriting recognition models.

This package contains the Python binding.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-zinnia

Install python-zinnia Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-zinnia

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-zinnia

How To Uninstall python-zinnia on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-zinnia

Uninstall python-zinnia And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-zinnia

Remove python-zinnia Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-zinnia

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-zinnia have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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