How To Install python3-os-collect-config on Debian 12

Learn how to install python3-os-collect-config on Debian 12 with this tutorial. python3-os-collect-config is collect and cache metadata, run hooks on changes

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-os-collect-config on Debian 12.

What is python3-os-collect-config

python3-os-collect-config is:

os-collect-config collects data from defined configuration sources and runs a defined hook whenever the metadata has changed. You must define what sources to collect configuration data from in os-collect-config configuration file at /etc/os-collect-config/sources.ini. These sources will be polled and whenever any of them changes, default.command will be run. A file will be written to the cache dir, os_config_files.json, which will be a json list of the file paths to the current copy of each metadata source. This list will also be set as a colon separated list in the environment variable OS_CONFIG_FILES for the command that is run.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-os-collect-config

Install python3-os-collect-config Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python3-os-collect-config

Install python3-os-collect-config 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-os-collect-config using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-os-collect-config

How To Uninstall python3-os-collect-config on Debian 12

To uninstall only the python3-os-collect-config package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-os-collect-config

Uninstall python3-os-collect-config And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-os-collect-config

Remove python3-os-collect-config Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-os-collect-config

Remove python3-os-collect-config configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-os-collect-config

Dependencies

python3-os-collect-config have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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