How To Install pyside2-tools on Debian 12

Learn how to install pyside2-tools on Debian 12 with this tutorial. pyside2-tools is development tools for PySide2 (lupdate)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pyside2-tools on Debian 12.

What is pyside2-tools

pyside2-tools is:

Qt is a cross-platform C++ application framework. Qt’s primary feature is its rich set of widgets that provide standard GUI functionality.

PySide2 ships Python bindings for the Qt5 framework. This package ships the following accompanying tools:

  • pyside2-lupdate - update Qt Linguist translation files for PySide

There are three methods to install pyside2-tools 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 pyside2-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install pyside2-tools using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install pyside2-tools

Install pyside2-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install pyside2-tools using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install pyside2-tools

Install pyside2-tools 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 pyside2-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pyside2-tools

How To Uninstall pyside2-tools on Debian 12

To uninstall only the pyside2-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pyside2-tools

Uninstall pyside2-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pyside2-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pyside2-tools

Remove pyside2-tools Configurations and Data

To remove pyside2-tools configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pyside2-tools

Remove pyside2-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove pyside2-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pyside2-tools

Dependencies

pyside2-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pyside2-tools package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.