How To Install python-invoke on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-invoke on Debian 10.
What is python-invoke
python-invoke is:
Invoke is a Python (2.6+ and 3.2+) task execution tool and library, drawing inspiration from various sources to arrive at a powerful and clean feature set.
Like Ruby’s Rake tool and Invoke’s own predecessor Fabric 1.x, it provides a clean, high level API for running shell commands and defining/organizing task functions from a tasks.py file.
From GNU Make, it inherits an emphasis on minimal boilerplate for common patterns and the ability to run multiple tasks in a single invocation.
Following the lead of most Unix CLI applications, it offers a traditional flag-based style of command-line parsing, deriving flag names and value types from task signatures.
Like many of its predecessors, it offers advanced features as well: namespacing, task aliasing, before/after hooks, parallel execution and more.
This package contains the Python 2.x module.
There are three methods to install python-invoke 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-invoke 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-invoke using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-invoke
Install python-invoke Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-invoke using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-invoke
Install python-invoke 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-invoke using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-invoke
How To Uninstall python-invoke on Debian 10
To uninstall only the python-invoke package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-invoke
Uninstall python-invoke And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-invoke and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-invoke
Remove python-invoke Configurations and Data
To remove python-invoke configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-invoke
Remove python-invoke configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-invoke configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-invoke
Dependencies
python-invoke have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-invoke package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
