How To Install python-joblib on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-joblib on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-joblib is tools to provide lightweight pipelining in Python

Introduction

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

What is python-joblib

python-joblib is:

Joblib is a set of tools to provide lightweight pipelining in Python. In particular, joblib offers:

  • transparent disk-caching of the output values and lazy re-evaluation (memoize pattern)
  • easy simple parallel computing
  • logging and tracing of the execution

Joblib is optimized to be fast and robust in particular on large, long-running functions and has specific optimizations for numpy arrays.

This package contains the Python 2 version.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-joblib

Install python-joblib Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-joblib

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-joblib

How To Uninstall python-joblib on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-joblib

Uninstall python-joblib And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-joblib

Remove python-joblib Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-joblib

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-joblib have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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