How To Install python-libxmp on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-libxmp
on Debian 9.
What is python-libxmp
python-libxmp is:
Python XMP Toolkit is a library for working with XMP metadata, as well as reading/writing XMP metadata stored in many different file formats.
XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) facilitates embedding metadata in files using a subset of RDF. Most notably XMP supports embedding metadata in PDF and many image formats, though it is designed to support nearly any file type.
This package provides Python bindings.
There are three methods to install python-libxmp
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-libxmp 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-libxmp
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-libxmp
Install python-libxmp Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-libxmp
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-libxmp
Install python-libxmp 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-libxmp
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-libxmp
How To Uninstall python-libxmp on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-libxmp
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-libxmp
Uninstall python-libxmp And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-libxmp
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-libxmp
Remove python-libxmp Configurations and Data
To remove python-libxmp
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-libxmp
Remove python-libxmp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-libxmp
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-libxmp
Dependencies
python-libxmp have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-libxmp
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.