How To Install python-lasagne on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-lasagne on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-lasagne is deep learning library build on the top of Theano (Python2 modules)

Introduction

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

What is python-lasagne

python-lasagne is:

Lasagne is a Python library to build and train deep (multi-layered) artificial neural networks on the top of Theano (math expression compiler). In comparison to other abstraction layers for that like e.g. Keras, it abstracts Theano as little as possible.

Lasagne supports networks like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN, mostly used for image recognition resp. classification) and the Long Short-Term Memory type (LSTM, a subtype of Recurrent Neural Networks, RNN).

This package contains the modules for Python 2.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-lasagne

Install python-lasagne Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-lasagne

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-lasagne

How To Uninstall python-lasagne on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-lasagne

Uninstall python-lasagne And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-lasagne

Remove python-lasagne Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-lasagne

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-lasagne have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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