Using “apt-get install xxx” inside Python script

Question

currently I need to install some package using apt or rpm, according the OS. I saw the lib \"apt\" to update or upgrade the system, but it is possible use it to install a si

Answer 1

You can use check_call from the subprocess library.

from subprocess import STDOUT, check_call
import os
check_call(['apt-get', 'install', '-y', 'filetoinstall'],
     stdout=open(os.devnull,'wb'), stderr=STDOUT) 

Dump the stdout to /dev/null, or os.devnull in this case.

os.devnull is platform independent, and will return /dev/null on POSIX and nul on Windows (which is not relevant since you're using apt-get but, still good to know :) )