How To Install python-txfixtures on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-txfixtures on Debian 9.
What is python-txfixtures
python-txfixtures is:
The txfixtures package hooks into the Python testtools “test fixture” interface, allowing you to write integration tests that rely on having external Twisted service processes (or other types of service processes or external resources in general) and possibly interact with them using blocking APIs from test cases, that will run asynchronously in the background.
This package provides the Python 2.x modules.
There are three methods to install python-txfixtures 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-txfixtures 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-txfixtures using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-txfixtures
Install python-txfixtures Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-txfixtures using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-txfixtures
Install python-txfixtures 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-txfixtures using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-txfixtures
How To Uninstall python-txfixtures on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-txfixtures package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-txfixtures
Uninstall python-txfixtures And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-txfixtures and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-txfixtures
Remove python-txfixtures Configurations and Data
To remove python-txfixtures configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-txfixtures
Remove python-txfixtures configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-txfixtures configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-txfixtures
Dependencies
python-txfixtures have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-txfixtures package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.