How To Install python-tmdbsimple on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-tmdbsimple on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-tmdbsimple is Wrapper for The Movie Database API (Python2 version)

Introduction

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

What is python-tmdbsimple

python-tmdbsimple is:

tmdbsimple is a wrapper, written in Python, for The Movie Database (TMDb) API v3. By calling the functions available in tmdbsimple one can simplify their code and easily access a vast amount of movie, tv, and cast data.

Features:

  • One-to-one mapping between tmdbsimple functions and TMDb methods.
  • Implements all TMDb methods, including Accounts and Authentication.
  • Implements new TV features.
  • Easy to access data using Python class attributes.
  • Easy to experiment with tmdbsimple functions inside the Python interpreter.

An API key is required to interact with the API endpoint.

This package contains the Python 2 version of the library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-tmdbsimple

Install python-tmdbsimple Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-tmdbsimple

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-tmdbsimple

How To Uninstall python-tmdbsimple on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-tmdbsimple

Uninstall python-tmdbsimple And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-tmdbsimple

Remove python-tmdbsimple Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-tmdbsimple

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-tmdbsimple have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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