How To Install python3-btrfs on Debian 12

Learn how to install python3-btrfs on Debian 12 with this tutorial. python3-btrfs is Python module to inspect an online btrfs filesystem

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-btrfs on Debian 12.

What is python3-btrfs

python3-btrfs is:

The primary goal of this module is to be able to inspect the internals of a mounted, online, filesystem for educational purposes.

A second goal is to provide a nicer way for automating administration tasks and writing monitoring scripts by being able to just programmatically access the needed information, instead of having to spend most of the time on parsing human readable output from other btrfs tools.

There are three methods to install python3-btrfs on Debian 12. 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-btrfs 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-btrfs using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-btrfs

Install python3-btrfs Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python3-btrfs

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

sudo aptitude -y install python3-btrfs

How To Uninstall python3-btrfs on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove python3-btrfs

Uninstall python3-btrfs And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-btrfs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-btrfs

Remove python3-btrfs Configurations and Data

To remove python3-btrfs configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-btrfs

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

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

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

Dependencies

python3-btrfs have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-btrfs package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.