How To Install tox on Debian 10

Learn how to install tox on Debian 10 with this tutorial. tox is virtualenv-based automation of test activities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tox on Debian 10.

What is tox

tox is:

Tox as is a generic virtualenv management and test command line tool you can use for:

  • checking your package installs correctly with different Python versions and interpreters
  • running your tests in each of the environments, configuring your test tool of choice
  • acting as a frontend to Continuous Integration servers, greatly reducing boilerplate and merging CI and shell-based testing.

There are three methods to install tox on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install tox Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tox

Install tox Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tox using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tox

Install tox 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 tox using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tox

How To Uninstall tox on Debian 10

To uninstall only the tox package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tox

Uninstall tox And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tox and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tox

Remove tox Configurations and Data

To remove tox configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tox

Remove tox configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tox

Dependencies

tox have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tox package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.