How To Install python3-rpm on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-rpm
on Debian 9.
What is python3-rpm
python3-rpm is:
The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a command-line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating computer software packages.
This package includes the Python bindings for librpm, allowing Python scripts to manipulate RPM packages and the RPM database.
This package installs the library for Python 3.
There are three methods to install python3-rpm
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-rpm 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-rpm
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-rpm
Install python3-rpm Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-rpm
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-rpm
Install python3-rpm 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-rpm
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-rpm
How To Uninstall python3-rpm on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python3-rpm
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-rpm
Uninstall python3-rpm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-rpm
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-rpm
Remove python3-rpm Configurations and Data
To remove python3-rpm
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-rpm
Remove python3-rpm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-rpm
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-rpm
Dependencies
python3-rpm have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-rpm
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.