How To Install python3-shelxfile on Debian 12

Learn how to install python3-shelxfile on Debian 12 with this tutorial. python3-shelxfile is read and write SHELXL syntax files (Python 3)

Introduction

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

What is python3-shelxfile

python3-shelxfile is:

This is a full implementation of the SHELXL file syntax. Additionally it is able to edit SHELX properties using Python. The implementation is Python3-only and supports SHELXL after 2017.

Shelxfile always keeps the file order intact. Every SHELX instruction like DFIX or an atom is stored as an class object in the list Shelxfile._reslist. When writing the Shelxfile content to disk, it wites the _reslist content to disk.

Shelxfile tries to detect all possible syntax errors that SHELXL would not like either. If Shelxfile.DEBUG is True, more output about syntax and other errors are printed out. Otherwise, the parser is quiet except for really severe errors like a missing unit cell.

This package installs the library for Python 3.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-shelxfile

Install python3-shelxfile Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python3-shelxfile

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

sudo aptitude -y install python3-shelxfile

How To Uninstall python3-shelxfile on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove python3-shelxfile

Uninstall python3-shelxfile And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-shelxfile

Remove python3-shelxfile Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-shelxfile

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

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

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

Dependencies

python3-shelxfile have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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