How To Install python-irc on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-irc
on Debian 9.
What is python-irc
python-irc is:
This library is intended to encapsulate the IRC protocol at a quite low level. It provides an event-driven IRC client framework. It has a fairly thorough support for the basic IRC protocol, CTCP and DCC connections.
This package installs the library for Python 2.
There are three methods to install python-irc
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-irc 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-irc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-irc
Install python-irc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-irc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-irc
Install python-irc 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-irc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-irc
How To Uninstall python-irc on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-irc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-irc
Uninstall python-irc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-irc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-irc
Remove python-irc Configurations and Data
To remove python-irc
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-irc
Remove python-irc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-irc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-irc
Dependencies
python-irc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-irc
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.