How To Install python-ioprocess on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-ioprocess on Debian 9.
What is python-ioprocess
python-ioprocess is:
When performing IO over network storage (specifically NFS) the process might get stuck in D state. To prevent your main process from becoming unkillable you might prefer to have a slave process do all the risky IO. This is what ioprocess is for.
This package provides a python API to ioprocess.
There are three methods to install python-ioprocess on Debian 9. 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-ioprocess 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-ioprocess using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-ioprocess
Install python-ioprocess Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-ioprocess using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-ioprocess
Install python-ioprocess 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-ioprocess using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-ioprocess
How To Uninstall python-ioprocess on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-ioprocess package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-ioprocess
Uninstall python-ioprocess And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-ioprocess and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-ioprocess
Remove python-ioprocess Configurations and Data
To remove python-ioprocess configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-ioprocess
Remove python-ioprocess configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-ioprocess configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-ioprocess
Dependencies
python-ioprocess have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-ioprocess package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
