How To Install python3-sop on Debian 12

Learn how to install python3-sop on Debian 12 with this tutorial. python3-sop is Framework for implementing the Stateless OpenPGP CLI in Python

Introduction

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

What is python3-sop

python3-sop is:

The Stateless OpenPGP Command-Line Interface (or sop) is a specification that encourages OpenPGP implementors to provide a common, relatively simple command-line API for purposes of object security.

This Python module helps implementers build such a CLI from any implementation accessible to the Python interpreter.

This package does not provide such an implementation itself – this is just the scaffolding for the command line, which should make it relatively easy for an implementer to supply a handful of Python functions as methods of a class and get a full-fledged CLI as the result.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-sop

Install python3-sop Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python3-sop

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

sudo aptitude -y install python3-sop

How To Uninstall python3-sop on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove python3-sop

Uninstall python3-sop And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-sop

Remove python3-sop Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-sop

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

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

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

Dependencies

python3-sop have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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