How To Install python-esmre on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-esmre on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-esmre is Regular expression acceleration in Python2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-esmre on Debian 10.

What is python-esmre

python-esmre is:

esmre is a Python module that can be used to speed up the execution of a large collection of regular expressions. It works by building a index of compulsory substrings from a collection of regular expressions, which it uses to quickly exclude those expressions which trivially do not match each input.

This is the Python 2 version of the package.

There are three methods to install python-esmre 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 python-esmre Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-esmre

Install python-esmre Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-esmre

Install python-esmre 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 python-esmre using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-esmre

How To Uninstall python-esmre on Debian 10

To uninstall only the python-esmre package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-esmre

Uninstall python-esmre And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-esmre

Remove python-esmre Configurations and Data

To remove python-esmre configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-esmre

Remove python-esmre configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-esmre

Dependencies

python-esmre have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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