How To Install python3-requests on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-requests on Debian 9. python3-requests is elegant and simple HTTP library for Python3, built for human beings

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-requests on Debian 9.

What is python3-requests

python3-requests is:

Requests allow you to send HTTP/1.1 requests. You can add headers, form data, multipart files, and parameters with simple Python dictionaries, and access the response data in the same way. It’s powered by httplib and urllib3, but it does all the hard work and crazy hacks for you.

Features

  • International Domains and URLs
  • Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling
  • Sessions with Cookie Persistence
  • Browser-style SSL Verification
  • Basic/Digest Authentication
  • Elegant Key/Value Cookies
  • Automatic Decompression
  • Unicode Response Bodies
  • Multipart File Uploads
  • Connection Timeouts

This package contains the Python 3 version of the library.

There are three methods to install python3-requests on Debian 9. 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-requests 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-requests using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-requests

Install python3-requests Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python3-requests

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

sudo aptitude -y install python3-requests

How To Uninstall python3-requests on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove python3-requests

Uninstall python3-requests And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-requests and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-requests

Remove python3-requests Configurations and Data

To remove python3-requests configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-requests

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

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

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

Dependencies

python3-requests have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-requests package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.