How To Install python-lmdb on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-lmdb
on Debian 9.
What is python-lmdb
python-lmdb is:
Lighting Memory-Mapped Database (LMDB) is an ultra-fast, ultra-compact key-value embedded data store developed for the OpenLDAP Project. It uses memory-mapped files, so it has the read performance of a pure in-memory database while still offering the persistence of standard disk-based databases, and is only limited to the size of the virtual address space (it is not limited to the size of physical RAM).
This package contains the ’lmdb’ Python extension module.
There are three methods to install python-lmdb
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-lmdb 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-lmdb
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-lmdb
Install python-lmdb Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-lmdb
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-lmdb
Install python-lmdb 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-lmdb
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-lmdb
How To Uninstall python-lmdb on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-lmdb
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-lmdb
Uninstall python-lmdb And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-lmdb
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-lmdb
Remove python-lmdb Configurations and Data
To remove python-lmdb
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-lmdb
Remove python-lmdb configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-lmdb
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-lmdb
Dependencies
python-lmdb have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-lmdb
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.