How To Install python3-mplcursors on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-mplcursors
on Debian 11.
What is python3-mplcursors
python3-mplcursors is:
mplcursors provides interactive data selection cursors for Matplotlib. It is inspired from mpldatacursor, with a much simplified API.
This package installs the library for Python 3.
There are three methods to install python3-mplcursors
on Debian 11. 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-mplcursors 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-mplcursors
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-mplcursors
Install python3-mplcursors Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-mplcursors
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-mplcursors
Install python3-mplcursors 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-mplcursors
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-mplcursors
How To Uninstall python3-mplcursors on Debian 11
To uninstall only the python3-mplcursors
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-mplcursors
Uninstall python3-mplcursors And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-mplcursors
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-mplcursors
Remove python3-mplcursors Configurations and Data
To remove python3-mplcursors
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-mplcursors
Remove python3-mplcursors configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-mplcursors
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-mplcursors
Dependencies
python3-mplcursors have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-mplcursors
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.