How To Install python3-simplejson on Debian 10

Learn how to install python3-simplejson on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python3-simplejson is simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder/decoder for Python 3.x

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-simplejson on Debian 10.

What is python3-simplejson

python3-simplejson is:

simplejson is a simple, fast, complete, correct and extensible JSON http://json.org encoder and decoder.

The encoder may be subclassed to provide serialization in any kind of situation, without any special support by the objects to be serialized (somewhat like pickle).

The decoder can handle incoming JSON strings of any specified encoding (UTF-8 by default).

simplejson is the externally maintained development version of the json library included with Python 2.6 and Python 3.0, but maintains backwards compatibility with Python 2.5.

This package contains the Python 3.x module.

There are three methods to install python3-simplejson on Debian 10. 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-simplejson 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-simplejson using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-simplejson

Install python3-simplejson Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python3-simplejson

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

sudo aptitude -y install python3-simplejson

How To Uninstall python3-simplejson on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python3-simplejson

Uninstall python3-simplejson And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-simplejson and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-simplejson

Remove python3-simplejson Configurations and Data

To remove python3-simplejson configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-simplejson

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

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

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

Dependencies

python3-simplejson have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-simplejson package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.