How To Install python3-html2text on Debian 10

Learn how to install python3-html2text on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python3-html2text is Python module for converting HTML to Markdown text (Python3 version)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-html2text on Debian 10.

What is python3-html2text

python3-html2text is:

html2text is a Python module that converts a page of HTML into clean, easy-to-read plain ASCII text. Better yet, that ASCII also happens to be valid Markdown (a text-to-HTML format).

This package contains the Python 3 version of the library, and a script, html2markdown.

There are three methods to install python3-html2text 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-html2text 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-html2text using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-html2text

Install python3-html2text Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-html2text using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-html2text

Install python3-html2text 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-html2text using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-html2text

How To Uninstall python3-html2text on Debian 10

To uninstall only the python3-html2text package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-html2text

Uninstall python3-html2text And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-html2text and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-html2text

Remove python3-html2text Configurations and Data

To remove python3-html2text configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-html2text

Remove python3-html2text configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-html2text configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-html2text

Dependencies

python3-html2text have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-html2text package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.