How To Install python-requests-mock on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-requests-mock on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-requests-mock is mock out responses from the requests package - Python 2.x

Introduction

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

What is `python-requests-mock`

python-requests-mock is:

requests-mock provides a building block to stub out the HTTP requests_ portions of your testing code. Everything in requests_ eventually goes through an adapter to do the transport work. requests-mock creates a custom adapter that allows you to predefine responses when certain URIs are called. There are then a number of methods provided to get the adapter used.

This package contains the Python 2.x module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-requests-mock

Install python-requests-mock Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-requests-mock

Install python-requests-mock 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-mock using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-requests-mock

How To Uninstall python-requests-mock on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-requests-mock

Uninstall python-requests-mock And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-requests-mock

Remove python-requests-mock Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-requests-mock

Remove python-requests-mock configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-requests-mock

Dependencies

python-requests-mock have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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