How To Install python-fastcluster on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-fastcluster on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-fastcluster is Fast hierarchical clustering routines for Python

Introduction

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

What is python-fastcluster

python-fastcluster is:

This library provides Python functions for hierarchical clustering. It generates hierarchical clusters from distance matrices or from vector data.

Part of this module is intended to replace the functions

 linkage, single, complete, average, weighted, centroid, median, ward

in the module scipy.cluster.hierarchy with the same functionality but much faster algorithms. Moreover, the function ’linkage_vector' provides memory-efficient clustering for vector data.

The interface is very similar to MATLAB’s Statistics Toolbox API to make code easier to port from MATLAB to Python/Numpy. The core implementation of this library is in C++ for efficiency.

This package provides the package’s Python interface.

There are three methods to install python-fastcluster 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-fastcluster 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-fastcluster using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python-fastcluster

Install python-fastcluster Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-fastcluster

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-fastcluster

How To Uninstall python-fastcluster on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-fastcluster

Uninstall python-fastcluster And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-fastcluster

Remove python-fastcluster Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-fastcluster

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-fastcluster have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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