How To Install python-lxc on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-lxc on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-lxc is Linux Containers userspace tools (Python 2.x bindings)

Introduction

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

What is python-lxc

python-lxc is:

Containers are insulated areas inside a system, which have their own namespace for filesystem, network, PID, IPC, CPU and memory allocation and which can be created using the Control Group and Namespace features included in the Linux kernel.

This package contains the Python 2.x bindings.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-lxc

Install python-lxc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-lxc

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-lxc

How To Uninstall python-lxc on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-lxc

Uninstall python-lxc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-lxc

Remove python-lxc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-lxc

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-lxc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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