How To Install python-cheetah on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-cheetah
on Debian 9.
What is python-cheetah
python-cheetah is:
Cheetah can be used as a standalone templating utility or referenced as a library from other Python applications. It has many potential uses, but web developers looking for a viable alternative to ASP, JSP, PHP and PSP are expected to be its principle user group.
Features:
- Generates HTML, SGML, XML, SQL, Postscript, form email, LaTeX, or any other text-based format.
- Cleanly separates content, graphic design, and program code.
- Blends the power and flexibility of Python with a simple template language that non-programmers can understand.
- Gives template writers full access to any Python data structure, module, function, object, or method in their templates.
- Makes code reuse easy by providing an object-orientated interface to templates that is accessible from Python code or other Cheetah templates. One template can subclass another and selectively reimplement sections of it.
- Provides a simple, yet powerful, caching mechanism that can dramatically improve the performance of a dynamic website.
- Compiles templates into optimized, yet readable, Python code.
There are three methods to install python-cheetah
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 python-cheetah 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-cheetah
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-cheetah
Install python-cheetah Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-cheetah
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-cheetah
Install python-cheetah 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-cheetah
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-cheetah
How To Uninstall python-cheetah on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-cheetah
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-cheetah
Uninstall python-cheetah And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-cheetah
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-cheetah
Remove python-cheetah Configurations and Data
To remove python-cheetah
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-cheetah
Remove python-cheetah configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-cheetah
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-cheetah
Dependencies
python-cheetah have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-cheetah
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.