How To Install python3-hexbytes on Debian 12

Learn how to install python3-hexbytes on Debian 12 with this tutorial. python3-hexbytes is Python bytes subclass decodes hex (Python 3)

Introduction

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

What is python3-hexbytes

python3-hexbytes is:

HexBytes is a very thin wrapper around the Python built-in bytes class. It has these three changes:

  1. Accepts more initializing values, like hex strings, non-negative integers, and booleans
  2. Returns hex with prefix ??0x?? from HexBytes.hex()
  3. The representation at console is in hex

This package installs the library for Python 3.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-hexbytes

Install python3-hexbytes Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python3-hexbytes

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

sudo aptitude -y install python3-hexbytes

How To Uninstall python3-hexbytes on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove python3-hexbytes

Uninstall python3-hexbytes And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-hexbytes

Remove python3-hexbytes Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-hexbytes

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

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

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

Dependencies

python3-hexbytes have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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