How To Install python-watson-developer-cloud on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-watson-developer-cloud on Debian 9. python-watson-developer-cloud is Python client library to use the IBM Watson Services (Python 2)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-watson-developer-cloud on Debian 9.

What is python-watson-developer-cloud

python-watson-developer-cloud is:

Python client library to quickly interface with various IBM Watson Cloud services. It requires Watson Service Credentials.

The services supported are:

  • AlchemyAPI Language service
  • AlchemyAPI Vision service
  • AlchemyData News service
  • Conversation service
  • Document Conversion service
  • Language Translation service
  • Language Translator service
  • Natural Language Classifier service
  • Personality Insights service
  • Retrieve and Rank service
  • Speech to Text service
  • Text to Speech service
  • Tone Analyzer service
  • Tradeoff Analytics service
  • Visual Recognition service

This package installs the library for Python 2.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-watson-developer-cloud

Install python-watson-developer-cloud Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-watson-developer-cloud

Install python-watson-developer-cloud 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-watson-developer-cloud using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-watson-developer-cloud

How To Uninstall python-watson-developer-cloud on Debian 9

To uninstall only the python-watson-developer-cloud package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-watson-developer-cloud

Uninstall python-watson-developer-cloud And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-watson-developer-cloud

Remove python-watson-developer-cloud Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-watson-developer-cloud

Remove python-watson-developer-cloud configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-watson-developer-cloud

Dependencies

python-watson-developer-cloud have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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