How To Install python-lasagne on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-lasagne on Debian 9.
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 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-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 9
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 9, 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 9 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 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
