How To Install python-requests on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-requests on Debian 10.
What is python-requests
python-requests is:
Requests allow you to send HTTP/1.1 requests. You can add headers, form data, multipart files, and parameters with simple Python dictionaries, and access the response data in the same way. It’s powered by httplib and urllib3, but it does all the hard work and crazy hacks for you.
Features
- International Domains and URLs
- Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling
- Sessions with Cookie Persistence
- Browser-style SSL Verification
- Basic/Digest Authentication
- Elegant Key/Value Cookies
- Automatic Decompression
- Unicode Response Bodies
- Multipart File Uploads
- Connection Timeouts
There are three methods to install python-requests 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-requests 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-requests using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-requests
Install python-requests Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-requests using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-requests
Install python-requests 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-requests using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-requests
How To Uninstall python-requests on Debian 10
To uninstall only the python-requests package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-requests
Uninstall python-requests And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-requests and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-requests
Remove python-requests Configurations and Data
To remove python-requests configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-requests
Remove python-requests configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-requests configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-requests
Dependencies
python-requests have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-requests package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
