How To Install python3-duecredit on Debian 12

Learn how to install python3-duecredit on Debian 12 with this tutorial. python3-duecredit is Publications (and donations) tracer

Introduction

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

What is python3-duecredit

python3-duecredit is:

duecredit is being conceived to address the problem of inadequate citation of scientific software and methods, and limited visibility of donation requests for open-source software.

It provides a simple framework (at the moment for Python only) to embed publication or other references in the original code so they are automatically collected and reported to the user at the necessary level of reference detail, i.e. only references for actually used functionality will be presented back if software provides multiple citeable implementations.

To get a sense of what duecredit is about, simply run or your analysis script with -m duecredit, e.g.

 python3 -m duecredit examples/example_scipy.py

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-duecredit

Install python3-duecredit Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python3-duecredit

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

sudo aptitude -y install python3-duecredit

How To Uninstall python3-duecredit on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove python3-duecredit

Uninstall python3-duecredit And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-duecredit

Remove python3-duecredit Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-duecredit

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

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

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

Dependencies

python3-duecredit have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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