How To Install python-xkcd-doc on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-xkcd-doc on Debian 9.

What is python-xkcd-doc

python-xkcd-doc 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 common documentation package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-xkcd-doc

Install python-xkcd-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-xkcd-doc

Install python-xkcd-doc 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-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-xkcd-doc

How To Uninstall python-xkcd-doc on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove python-xkcd-doc

Uninstall python-xkcd-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python-xkcd-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-xkcd-doc

Remove python-xkcd-doc Configurations and Data

To remove python-xkcd-doc configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-xkcd-doc

Remove python-xkcd-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-xkcd-doc

Dependencies

python-xkcd-doc have the following dependencies:

• libjs-sphinxdoc

References

• python-xkcd-doc website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-xkcd-doc package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.