How To Install python3-minecraftpi on Debian 12

Learn how to install python3-minecraftpi on Debian 12 with this tutorial. python3-minecraftpi is Raspberry PI Minecraft API Python client library

Introduction

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

What is python3-minecraftpi

python3-minecraftpi is:

Make it easy to program minetest and minecraft from Python, as described in the book Learn to program using Minecraft.

This package provide the ‘mcpi’ Python library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-minecraftpi

Install python3-minecraftpi Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python3-minecraftpi

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

sudo aptitude -y install python3-minecraftpi

How To Uninstall python3-minecraftpi on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove python3-minecraftpi

Uninstall python3-minecraftpi And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-minecraftpi

Remove python3-minecraftpi Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-minecraftpi

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

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

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

Dependencies

python3-minecraftpi have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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