How To Install python-gobject-2-dbg on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-gobject-2-dbg
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is python-gobject-2-dbg
python-gobject-2-dbg 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 static Python bindings for gobject, glib, and gio. These are deprecated by dynamic GObject-Introspection bindings (which are provided by the python-gi package), and should not be used in newly written code. These static bindings just exist to provide backwards compatibility for GNOME 2 based software.
This package contains the extensions built for the Python debug interpreter. Build-Ids: 1cca1e7210aaefcef1a21d9154aacb3335dcdc09 3f2fabb50debbc04b5868134745e590db91f1c5f 64f55f5ed6ecd9eac870a05a4d81b9df529f8917 898d6ad6f7fffb6dd0a0c6baec83ed9458b3a7dd a749163f1dfb91669a48346379f6b612b6cd6087
There are three methods to install python-gobject-2-dbg
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-gobject-2-dbg 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-gobject-2-dbg
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-gobject-2-dbg
Install python-gobject-2-dbg Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-gobject-2-dbg
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-gobject-2-dbg
Install python-gobject-2-dbg 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install python-gobject-2-dbg
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-gobject-2-dbg
How To Uninstall python-gobject-2-dbg on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the python-gobject-2-dbg
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-gobject-2-dbg
Uninstall python-gobject-2-dbg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-gobject-2-dbg
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-gobject-2-dbg
Remove python-gobject-2-dbg Configurations and Data
To remove python-gobject-2-dbg
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-gobject-2-dbg
Remove python-gobject-2-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-gobject-2-dbg
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-gobject-2-dbg
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-gobject-2-dbg
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.