How To Install python3-tidylib on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-tidylib on Debian 9.
What is python3-tidylib
python3-tidylib is:
PyTidyLib is a Python package that wraps the HTML Tidy library. This allows you, from Python code, to ??fix?? invalid (X)HTML markup. Some of the library??s many capabilities include:
- Clean up unclosed tags and unescaped characters such as ampersands
- Output HTML 4 or XHTML, strict or transitional, and add missing doctypes
- Convert named entities to numeric entities, which can then be used in XML documents without an HTML doctype.
- Clean up HTML from programs such as Word (to an extent)
- Indent the output, including proper (i.e. no) indenting for pre elements, which some (X)HTML indenting code overlooks.
This is the Python 3 version of the module.
There are three methods to install python3-tidylib 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-tidylib 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-tidylib using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-tidylib
Install python3-tidylib Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-tidylib using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-tidylib
Install python3-tidylib 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-tidylib using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-tidylib
How To Uninstall python3-tidylib on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python3-tidylib package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-tidylib
Uninstall python3-tidylib And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-tidylib and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-tidylib
Remove python3-tidylib Configurations and Data
To remove python3-tidylib configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-tidylib
Remove python3-tidylib configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-tidylib configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-tidylib
Dependencies
python3-tidylib have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-tidylib package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.