How To Install pelican on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pelican
on Debian 9.
What is pelican
pelican is:
Pelican is a static site generator, written in Python. It allows you to write your weblog entries directly with your editor of choice in reStructuredText or Markdown, and generates completely static output that is easy to host anywhere. Pelican includes a simple CLI tool to (re)generate the weblog and it is easy to interface with DVCSes and web hooks.
There are three methods to install pelican
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 pelican Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pelican
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pelican
Install pelican Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pelican
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pelican
Install pelican 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 pelican
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pelican
How To Uninstall pelican on Debian 9
To uninstall only the pelican
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pelican
Uninstall pelican And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pelican
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pelican
Remove pelican Configurations and Data
To remove pelican
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pelican
Remove pelican configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pelican
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pelican
Dependencies
pelican have the following dependencies:
- python-argparse
- python-markdown
- python-pkg-resources
- python-blinker
- python-dateutil
- python-docutils
- python-feedgenerator
- python-jinja2
- python-pygments
- python-six
- python-tz
- python-unidecode
- python
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pelican
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.