How To Install python-monotonic on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-monotonic on Debian 9. python-monotonic is implementation of time.monotonic() - Python 2.x

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-monotonic on Debian 9.

What is python-monotonic

python-monotonic is:

This module provides a monotonic() function which returns the value (in fractional seconds) of a clock which never goes backwards. On Python 3.3 or newer, monotonic will be an alias of time.monotonic from the standard library. On older versions, it will fall back to an equivalent implementation: GetTickCount64 on Windows, mach_absolute_time on OS X, and clock_gettime(3) on Linux/BSD.

If no suitable implementation exists for the current platform, attempting to import this module (or to import from it) will cause a RuntimeError exception to be raised.

This package contains the Python 2.x module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-monotonic

Install python-monotonic Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-monotonic

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-monotonic

How To Uninstall python-monotonic on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove python-monotonic

Uninstall python-monotonic And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python-monotonic and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-monotonic

Remove python-monotonic Configurations and Data

To remove python-monotonic configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-monotonic

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-monotonic have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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