How To Install python-xstatic-font-awesome on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-xstatic-font-awesome on Debian 9. python-xstatic-font-awesome is Font Awesome XStatic support - Python 2.x

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-xstatic-font-awesome on Debian 9.

What is python-xstatic-font-awesome

python-xstatic-font-awesome is:

XStatic is a Python web development tool for handling required static data files from external projects, such as CSS, images, and JavaScript. It provides a lightweight infrastructure to manage them via Python modules that your app can depend on in a portable, virtualenv-friendly way instead of using embedded copies.

This package contains the Python 2.x module support for the Font Awesome. See the description of the fonts-font-awesome package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-xstatic-font-awesome

Install python-xstatic-font-awesome Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-xstatic-font-awesome

Install python-xstatic-font-awesome 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-xstatic-font-awesome using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-xstatic-font-awesome

How To Uninstall python-xstatic-font-awesome on Debian 9

To uninstall only the python-xstatic-font-awesome package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-xstatic-font-awesome

Uninstall python-xstatic-font-awesome And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-xstatic-font-awesome

Remove python-xstatic-font-awesome Configurations and Data

To remove python-xstatic-font-awesome configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-xstatic-font-awesome

Remove python-xstatic-font-awesome configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-xstatic-font-awesome

Dependencies

python-xstatic-font-awesome have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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