How To Install python-influxdb on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-influxdb
on Debian 10.
What is python-influxdb
python-influxdb is:
API bindings for InfluxDB. Supports both InfluxDB v0.8 and InfluxDB >= 0.9. InfluxDB is an open source distributed time series database with no external dependencies. It’s useful for recording metrics, events, and performing analytics.
This package contains the Python 2.7 module.
There are three methods to install python-influxdb
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-influxdb 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-influxdb
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-influxdb
Install python-influxdb Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-influxdb
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-influxdb
Install python-influxdb 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-influxdb
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-influxdb
How To Uninstall python-influxdb on Debian 10
To uninstall only the python-influxdb
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-influxdb
Uninstall python-influxdb And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-influxdb
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-influxdb
Remove python-influxdb Configurations and Data
To remove python-influxdb
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-influxdb
Remove python-influxdb configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-influxdb
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-influxdb
Dependencies
python-influxdb have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-influxdb
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.