How To Install python-prettytable on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-prettytable
on Debian 9.
What is python-prettytable
python-prettytable is:
PrettyTable is a simple Python library designed to make it quick and easy to represent tabular data in visually appealing ASCII tables. It was inspired by the ASCII tables used in the PostgreSQL shell psql. PrettyTable allows for selection of which columns are to be printed, independent alignment of columns (left or right justified or centred) and printing of “sub-tables” by specifying a row range.
There are three methods to install python-prettytable
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-prettytable 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-prettytable
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-prettytable
Install python-prettytable Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-prettytable
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-prettytable
Install python-prettytable 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-prettytable
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-prettytable
How To Uninstall python-prettytable on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-prettytable
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-prettytable
Uninstall python-prettytable And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-prettytable
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-prettytable
Remove python-prettytable Configurations and Data
To remove python-prettytable
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-prettytable
Remove python-prettytable configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-prettytable
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-prettytable
Dependencies
python-prettytable have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-prettytable
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.