How To Install python-virtualenv-clone on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-virtualenv-clone on Debian 10.
What is python-virtualenv-clone
python-virtualenv-clone is:
Virtualenv provides a way to make virtualenv’s relocatable which could then be copied as wanted. However making a virtualenv relocatable this way breaks the no-site-packages isolation of the virtualenv as well as other aspects that come with relative paths and ‘/usr/bin/env’ shebangs that may be undesirable.
Also, the .pth and .egg-link rewriting doesn’t seem to work as intended. This attempts to overcome these issues and provide a way to easily clone an existing virtualenv.
This is the Python2 package
There are three methods to install python-virtualenv-clone 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-virtualenv-clone 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-virtualenv-clone using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-virtualenv-clone
Install python-virtualenv-clone Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-virtualenv-clone using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-virtualenv-clone
Install python-virtualenv-clone 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-virtualenv-clone using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-virtualenv-clone
How To Uninstall python-virtualenv-clone on Debian 10
To uninstall only the python-virtualenv-clone package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-virtualenv-clone
Uninstall python-virtualenv-clone And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-virtualenv-clone and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-virtualenv-clone
Remove python-virtualenv-clone Configurations and Data
To remove python-virtualenv-clone configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-virtualenv-clone
Remove python-virtualenv-clone configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-virtualenv-clone configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-virtualenv-clone
Dependencies
python-virtualenv-clone have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-virtualenv-clone package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
