How To Install pypy-bs4 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pypy-bs4 on Debian 9.
What is pypy-bs4
pypy-bs4 is:
Beautiful Soup is a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files. It works with your favorite parser to provide idiomatic ways of navigating, searching, and modifying the parse tree. It commonly saves programmers hours or days of work.
This package contains BeautifulSoup 4, for Python 2.x PyPy.
There are three methods to install pypy-bs4 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 pypy-bs4 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pypy-bs4 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pypy-bs4
Install pypy-bs4 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pypy-bs4 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pypy-bs4
Install pypy-bs4 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 pypy-bs4 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pypy-bs4
How To Uninstall pypy-bs4 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the pypy-bs4 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pypy-bs4
Uninstall pypy-bs4 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pypy-bs4 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pypy-bs4
Remove pypy-bs4 Configurations and Data
To remove pypy-bs4 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pypy-bs4
Remove pypy-bs4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pypy-bs4 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pypy-bs4
Dependencies
pypy-bs4 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pypy-bs4 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.