How To Install python3-xkcd on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-xkcd
on Debian 9.
What is python3-xkcd
python3-xkcd is:
This is a Python library for accessing and retrieving links to comics from the xkcd webcomic by Randall Munroe. It is NOT endorsed or made by him, it??s an entirely independent project.
It makes use of the JSON interface to Randall??s site to retrieve comic data.
One can create comic objects manually using Comic(number), or can use the helper functions provided- getLatestComic(), getRandomComic(), and getComic()- to do this. Once you have a Comic object, you can access data from it using various provided methods.
This is the Python 3 version of the package.
There are three methods to install python3-xkcd
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-xkcd 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-xkcd
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-xkcd
Install python3-xkcd Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-xkcd
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-xkcd
Install python3-xkcd 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-xkcd
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-xkcd
How To Uninstall python3-xkcd on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python3-xkcd
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-xkcd
Uninstall python3-xkcd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-xkcd
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-xkcd
Remove python3-xkcd Configurations and Data
To remove python3-xkcd
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-xkcd
Remove python3-xkcd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-xkcd
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-xkcd
Dependencies
python3-xkcd have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-xkcd
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.