How To Install python-gflags on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-gflags
on Debian 9.
What is python-gflags
python-gflags is:
GFlags defines a distributed command line system, replacing systems like getopt(), optparse and manual argument processing. Rather than an application having to define all flags in or near main(), each Python module defines flags that are useful to it. When one Python module imports another, it gains access to the other’s flags.
It includes the ability to define flag types (boolean, float, integer, list), autogeneration of help (in both human and machine readable format) and reading arguments from a file. It also includes the ability to automatically generate man pages from the help flags.
This package provides the Python 2.x module.
There are three methods to install python-gflags
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-gflags 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-gflags
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-gflags
Install python-gflags Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-gflags
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-gflags
Install python-gflags 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-gflags
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-gflags
How To Uninstall python-gflags on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-gflags
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-gflags
Uninstall python-gflags And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-gflags
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-gflags
Remove python-gflags Configurations and Data
To remove python-gflags
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-gflags
Remove python-gflags configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-gflags
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-gflags
Dependencies
python-gflags have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-gflags
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.