How To Install python-simpleeval on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-simpleeval on Debian 10.
What is python-simpleeval
python-simpleeval is:
Quick single file library for easily adding evaluatable expressions into Python projects.
Short, easy to use, safe and reasonably extensible expression evaluator. Designed for things like in a website where you want to allow the user to generate a string, or a number from some other input, without allowing full eval() or other unsafe or needlessly complex linguistics.
This package is targeting Python version 2.
There are three methods to install python-simpleeval 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-simpleeval 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-simpleeval using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-simpleeval
Install python-simpleeval Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-simpleeval using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-simpleeval
Install python-simpleeval 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-simpleeval using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-simpleeval
How To Uninstall python-simpleeval on Debian 10
To uninstall only the python-simpleeval package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-simpleeval
Uninstall python-simpleeval And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-simpleeval and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-simpleeval
Remove python-simpleeval Configurations and Data
To remove python-simpleeval configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-simpleeval
Remove python-simpleeval configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-simpleeval configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-simpleeval
Dependencies
python-simpleeval have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-simpleeval package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.