How To Install python3-shtab on Debian 12

Learn how to install python3-shtab on Debian 12 with this tutorial. python3-shtab is Automagic shell tab completion for Python CLI applications

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-shtab on Debian 12.

What is python3-shtab

python3-shtab is:

Automatically generate shell tab completion scripts for Python CLI apps. shtab processes an argparse.ArgumentParser object to generate a tab completion script for your shell.

This package contains the Python 3 version of the library.

There are three methods to install python3-shtab on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install python3-shtab Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-shtab using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-shtab

Install python3-shtab Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-shtab using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-shtab

Install python3-shtab 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 python3-shtab using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-shtab

How To Uninstall python3-shtab on Debian 12

To uninstall only the python3-shtab package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-shtab

Uninstall python3-shtab And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-shtab and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-shtab

Remove python3-shtab Configurations and Data

To remove python3-shtab configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-shtab

Remove python3-shtab configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-shtab configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-shtab

Dependencies

python3-shtab have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-shtab package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.