How To Install python3-xopen on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-xopen
on Debian 9.
What is python3-xopen
python3-xopen is:
This small Python3 module provides a xopen function that works like the built-in open function, but can also deal with compressed files. Supported compression formats are gzip, bzip2 and xz. They are automatically recognized by their file extensions .gz, .bz2 or .xz.
The focus is on being as efficient as possible on all supported Python versions. For example, simply using gzip.open is slow in older Pythons, and it is a lot faster to use a gzip subprocess.
This module has originally been developed as part of the cutadapt tool that is used in bioinformatics to manipulate sequencing data. It has been in successful use within that software for a few years.
This is the Python3 version.
There are three methods to install python3-xopen
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-xopen 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-xopen
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-xopen
Install python3-xopen Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-xopen
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-xopen
Install python3-xopen 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-xopen
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-xopen
How To Uninstall python3-xopen on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python3-xopen
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-xopen
Uninstall python3-xopen And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-xopen
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-xopen
Remove python3-xopen Configurations and Data
To remove python3-xopen
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-xopen
Remove python3-xopen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-xopen
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-xopen
Dependencies
python3-xopen have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-xopen
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.