How To Install python-pyodbc-dbg on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-pyodbc-dbg on Debian 9.

What is python-pyodbc-dbg

python-pyodbc-dbg is:

A Python DB API 2 module for ODBC. No 3rd party libraries are required. Only native Python datatypes are used, such as decimal and datetime. It implements the Python Database API Specification v2.0. For example: import pyodbc Next, create a connection by passing an ODBC connection string to the connect method. This step causes ODBC to load the database driver (the SQL Server driver in this example) and connect to the database. cnxn = pyodbc.connect(‘DSN=northwind’)

This package contains debugging symbols.

There are three methods to install python-pyodbc-dbg 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-pyodbc-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-pyodbc-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python-pyodbc-dbg

Install python-pyodbc-dbg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-pyodbc-dbg

Install python-pyodbc-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-pyodbc-dbg

How To Uninstall python-pyodbc-dbg on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove python-pyodbc-dbg

Uninstall python-pyodbc-dbg And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python-pyodbc-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-pyodbc-dbg

Remove python-pyodbc-dbg Configurations and Data

To remove python-pyodbc-dbg configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-pyodbc-dbg

Remove python-pyodbc-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-pyodbc-dbg

Dependencies

python-pyodbc-dbg have the following dependencies:

• python-pyodbc
• python-dbg
• python-dbg
• python-dbg

References

• python-pyodbc-dbg website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-pyodbc-dbg package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.