How To Install python-tap on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-tap on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-tap is TAP producer/consumer tools for Python unittest – Python 2 version

Introduction

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

What is python-tap

python-tap is:

The tap.py package provides a set of tools for working with the Test Anything Protocol (TAP). TAP is a line based test protocol for recording test data in a standard way.

As a TAP producer, this package comes with a test-runner that implements the unittest.TestRunner interface and produces TAP compliant output.

As a TAP consumer, it includes tools to parse the output of TAP compliant producers. It also provides means to replay a test-suite from a captured output, without having to actually run the tests again.

This package provide the Python 2.x version of tap.py.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-tap

Install python-tap Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-tap

Install python-tap 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-tap using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-tap

How To Uninstall python-tap on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-tap

Uninstall python-tap And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-tap

Remove python-tap Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-tap

Remove python-tap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-tap

Dependencies

python-tap have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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