How To Install python3-cssselect on Debian 10

Learn how to install python3-cssselect on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python3-cssselect is cssselect parses CSS3 Selectors and translates them to XPath 1.0

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-cssselect on Debian 10.

What is python3-cssselect

python3-cssselect is:

cssselect parses CSS3 Selectors and translate them to XPath 1.0 expressions. Such expressions can be used in lxml or another XPath engine to find the matching elements in an XML or HTML document.

This module used to live inside of lxml as lxml.cssselect before it was extracted as a stand-alone project.

This package provides the Python 3.x module.

There are three methods to install python3-cssselect on Debian 10. 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-cssselect 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-cssselect using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-cssselect

Install python3-cssselect Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python3-cssselect

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

sudo aptitude -y install python3-cssselect

How To Uninstall python3-cssselect on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python3-cssselect

Uninstall python3-cssselect And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-cssselect and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-cssselect

Remove python3-cssselect Configurations and Data

To remove python3-cssselect configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-cssselect

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

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

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

Dependencies

python3-cssselect have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-cssselect package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.