How To Install python-hiredis on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-hiredis on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-hiredis is redis protocol reader for Python 2.X using hiredis

Introduction

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

What is python-hiredis

python-hiredis is:

python-hiredis provides a Python extension that wraps the protocol parsing code in Hiredis. It is targeted at speeding up parsing multi bulk replies from redis-server.

Hiredis is a minimalistic C client library for the Redis database, a persistent key-value database with support for atomically manipulating and querying data structures such as lists and sets.

python-hiredis is not a stand-alone redis client library and requires other code to perform low-level I/O with redis.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-hiredis

Install python-hiredis Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-hiredis

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-hiredis

How To Uninstall python-hiredis on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-hiredis

Uninstall python-hiredis And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-hiredis

Remove python-hiredis Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-hiredis

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-hiredis have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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