How To Install python-radix on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-radix on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-radix is radix tree implementation for storage of IPv4 and IPv6 networks (Python 2)

Introduction

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

What is python-radix

python-radix is:

py-radix is an implementation of a radix tree for Python, which supports storage and lookups of IPv4 and IPv6 networks. This is a Python equivalent to Dave Plonka’s Perl Net::Patricia (it even steals the same radix tree code from MRTd).

The radix tree (a.k.a Patricia tree) is the data structure most commonly used for routing table lookups. It efficiently stores network prefixes of varying lengths and allows fast lookups of containing networks. py-radix’s implementation is built solely for networks (the data structure itself is more general).

This package contains the Python 2 version of the library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-radix

Install python-radix Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-radix

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-radix

How To Uninstall python-radix on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-radix

Uninstall python-radix And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-radix

Remove python-radix Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-radix

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-radix have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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