How To Install python3-boltons on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-boltons on Debian 9. python3-boltons is set of pure-Python utilities (Python 3)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-boltons on Debian 9.

What is python3-boltons

python3-boltons is:

Boltons is a set of over 160 BSD-licensed, pure-Python utilities in the same spirit as ?? and yet conspicuously missing from ?? the standard library, including:

  • Atomic file saving, bolted on with fileutils
  • A highly-optimized OrderedMultiDict, in dictutils
  • Two types of PriorityQueue, in queueutils
  • Chunked and windowed iteration, in iterutils
  • Recursive data structure iteration and merging, with iterutils.remap
  • Exponential backoff functionality, including jitter, through iterutils.backoff
  • A full-featured TracebackInfo type, for representing stack traces, in tbutils

This package installs the library for Python 3.

There are three methods to install python3-boltons 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 python3-boltons 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-boltons using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-boltons

Install python3-boltons Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python3-boltons

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

sudo aptitude -y install python3-boltons

How To Uninstall python3-boltons on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove python3-boltons

Uninstall python3-boltons And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-boltons and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-boltons

Remove python3-boltons Configurations and Data

To remove python3-boltons configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-boltons

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

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

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

Dependencies

python3-boltons have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-boltons package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.