How To Install python-gi-cairo on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-gi-cairo
on Debian 9.
What is python-gi-cairo
python-gi-cairo is:
GObject is an abstraction layer that allows programming with an object paradigm that is compatible with many languages. It is a part of Glib, the core library used to build GTK+ and GNOME.
This package contains the Python Cairo bindings for GObject. It is mostly used by other bindings to map their GObjects to Python objects.
There are three methods to install python-gi-cairo
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-gi-cairo 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-gi-cairo
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-gi-cairo
Install python-gi-cairo Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-gi-cairo
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-gi-cairo
Install python-gi-cairo 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-gi-cairo
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-gi-cairo
How To Uninstall python-gi-cairo on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-gi-cairo
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-gi-cairo
Uninstall python-gi-cairo And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-gi-cairo
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-gi-cairo
Remove python-gi-cairo Configurations and Data
To remove python-gi-cairo
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-gi-cairo
Remove python-gi-cairo configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-gi-cairo
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-gi-cairo
Dependencies
python-gi-cairo have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-gi-cairo
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.