How To Install pytidylib-doc on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install pytidylib-doc on Debian 9. pytidylib-doc is Python wrapper for HTML Tidy (tidylib) documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pytidylib-doc on Debian 9.

What is pytidylib-doc

pytidylib-doc 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 package contains the built HTML and PDF documentation for PyTidyLib.

There are three methods to install pytidylib-doc 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 pytidylib-doc Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install pytidylib-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install pytidylib-doc

Install pytidylib-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pytidylib-doc

Install pytidylib-doc 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 pytidylib-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pytidylib-doc

How To Uninstall pytidylib-doc on Debian 9

To uninstall only the pytidylib-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pytidylib-doc

Uninstall pytidylib-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pytidylib-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pytidylib-doc

Remove pytidylib-doc Configurations and Data

To remove pytidylib-doc configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pytidylib-doc

Remove pytidylib-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pytidylib-doc

Dependencies

pytidylib-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pytidylib-doc package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.