How To Install python-bs4 on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-bs4 on Debian 10.
What is python-bs4
python-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.
There are three methods to install python-bs4 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-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 python-bs4 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-bs4
Install python-bs4 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-bs4 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-bs4
Install python-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 python-bs4 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-bs4
How To Uninstall python-bs4 on Debian 10
To uninstall only the python-bs4 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-bs4
Uninstall python-bs4 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-bs4 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-bs4
Remove python-bs4 Configurations and Data
To remove python-bs4 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-bs4
Remove python-bs4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-bs4 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-bs4
Dependencies
python-bs4 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-bs4 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.