How To Install python3-svgelements on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-svgelements on Debian 12.
What is python3-svgelements
python3-svgelements is:
The goal is to successfully and correctly process SVG for use with any scripts that may need or want to use SVG files as geometric data.
This is both facilitated by, and results in, very useful elements within the SVG spec: Path, Matrix, Angle, Length, Color, Point and other SVG and CSS Elements. The SVG spec defines a variety of elements which generally interoperate. In order to have a robust experience with SVGs one must be able to correctly deal with the parsing and interactions of these elements.
This project began as part of meerK40t which does SVG loading of files for laser cutting. It attempts to more fully map out the SVG specification, objects, and paths, while remaining easy to use and largely backwards compatible. These elements are quite useful in their own right. For example, the zooming and panning within meerK40t is done using the SVG matrix which more robust than the wxPython one. Internal console commands within meerK40t allows specifying robustly parsed angles of rotation, colors of objects, and naively uses the Path() and SVGImage objects. The ability to have these robustly manipulated with affine transformations provides considerable utility. There is significant utility in the interactions between these objects, however if one just want to robustly parse some SVG and convert the data to their own structures that is entirely reasonable.
Without robust SVG parsing one’ll find repeated edge cases of some svg files that do not parse correctly. svgelements aims to avoid those pitfalls with robust adherence to the SVG spec.
There are three methods to install python3-svgelements 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-svgelements 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-svgelements using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-svgelements
Install python3-svgelements Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-svgelements using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-svgelements
Install python3-svgelements 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-svgelements using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-svgelements
How To Uninstall python3-svgelements on Debian 12
To uninstall only the python3-svgelements package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-svgelements
Uninstall python3-svgelements And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-svgelements and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-svgelements
Remove python3-svgelements Configurations and Data
To remove python3-svgelements configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-svgelements
Remove python3-svgelements configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-svgelements configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-svgelements
Dependencies
python3-svgelements have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-svgelements package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
