How To Install python-sunlight on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-sunlight
on Debian 9.
What is python-sunlight
python-sunlight is:
This module can be used to access U.S. government data, as provided by The Sunlight Foundation’s API services. Data provided includes such data as federal and state-local legislators, legislative instruments, and searches against the congressional record.
This package is for use by developers or other applications, and does not provide any userspace scripts or binaries.
This package provides Python 2 module bindings only.
There are three methods to install python-sunlight
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-sunlight 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-sunlight
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-sunlight
Install python-sunlight Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-sunlight
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-sunlight
Install python-sunlight 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-sunlight
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-sunlight
How To Uninstall python-sunlight on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-sunlight
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-sunlight
Uninstall python-sunlight And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-sunlight
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-sunlight
Remove python-sunlight Configurations and Data
To remove python-sunlight
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-sunlight
Remove python-sunlight configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-sunlight
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-sunlight
Dependencies
python-sunlight have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-sunlight
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.