How To Install python-publicsuffix on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-publicsuffix on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-publicsuffix is Python module to get a domain suffix using the Public Suffix List

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-publicsuffix on Debian 10.

What is python-publicsuffix

python-publicsuffix is:

This Python module allows you to get the public suffix of a domain name using the Public Suffix List from http://publicsuffix.org.

A public suffix is one under which Internet users can directly register names. Some examples of public suffixes are .com, .co.uk and pvt.k12.wy.us. Accurately knowing the public suffix of a domain is useful when handling web browser cookies, highlighting the most important part of a domain name in a user interface or sorting URLs by web site.

There are three methods to install python-publicsuffix on Debian 10. 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-publicsuffix 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-publicsuffix using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python-publicsuffix

Install python-publicsuffix Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python-publicsuffix using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python-publicsuffix

Install python-publicsuffix 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-publicsuffix using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-publicsuffix

How To Uninstall python-publicsuffix on Debian 10

To uninstall only the python-publicsuffix package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-publicsuffix

Uninstall python-publicsuffix And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python-publicsuffix and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-publicsuffix

Remove python-publicsuffix Configurations and Data

To remove python-publicsuffix configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-publicsuffix

Remove python-publicsuffix configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python-publicsuffix configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-publicsuffix

Dependencies

python-publicsuffix have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-publicsuffix package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.