How To Install python-xkcd on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-xkcd on Debian 9.
What is python-xkcd
python-xkcd is:
This is a Python library for accessing and retrieving links to comics from the xkcd webcomic by Randall Munroe. It is NOT endorsed or made by him, it??s an entirely independent project.
It makes use of the JSON interface to Randall??s site to retrieve comic data.
One can create comic objects manually using Comic(number), or can use the helper functions provided- getLatestComic(), getRandomComic(), and getComic()- to do this. Once you have a Comic object, you can access data from it using various provided methods.
This is the Python 2 version of the package.
There are three methods to install python-xkcd 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-xkcd 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-xkcd using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-xkcd
Install python-xkcd Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-xkcd using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-xkcd
Install python-xkcd 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-xkcd using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-xkcd
How To Uninstall python-xkcd on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-xkcd package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-xkcd
Uninstall python-xkcd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-xkcd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-xkcd
Remove python-xkcd Configurations and Data
To remove python-xkcd configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-xkcd
Remove python-xkcd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-xkcd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-xkcd
Dependencies
python-xkcd have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-xkcd package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.