How To Install python3-bleach on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-bleach on Debian 11. python3-bleach is whitelist-based HTML-sanitizing library (Python 3)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-bleach on Debian 11.

What is python3-bleach

python3-bleach is:

Bleach is an HTML sanitizing library that escapes or strips markup and attributes based on a white list. Bleach can also linkify text safely, applying filters that Django’s urlize filter cannot, and optionally setting rel attributes, even on links already in the text.

Bleach is intended for sanitizing text from untrusted sources. If you find yourself jumping through hoops to allow your site administrators to do lots of things, you’re probably outside the use cases. Either trust those users, or don’t.

Because it relies on html5lib, Bleach is as good as modern browsers at dealing with weird, quirky HTML fragments. And any of Bleach’s methods will fix unbalanced or mis-nested tags.

This is the Python 3 version of the package.

There are three methods to install python3-bleach on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install python3-bleach Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-bleach using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-bleach

Install python3-bleach Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-bleach using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-bleach

Install python3-bleach 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 python3-bleach using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-bleach

How To Uninstall python3-bleach on Debian 11

To uninstall only the python3-bleach package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-bleach

Uninstall python3-bleach And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-bleach and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-bleach

Remove python3-bleach Configurations and Data

To remove python3-bleach configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-bleach

Remove python3-bleach configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-bleach configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-bleach

Dependencies

python3-bleach have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-bleach package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.