How To Install python-xapian-haystack on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-xapian-haystack
on Debian 10.
What is python-xapian-haystack
python-xapian-haystack is:
Xapian-haystack is a backend of Django-Haystack for the Xapian search engine. It provides all the standard features of Haystack:
- Weighting
- Faceted search (date, query, etc.)
- Sorting
- Spelling suggestions
- EdgeNGram and Ngram (for autocomplete) The endswith search operation is not supported.
This package contains the Python 2 version of the library.
There are three methods to install python-xapian-haystack
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-xapian-haystack 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-xapian-haystack
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-xapian-haystack
Install python-xapian-haystack Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-xapian-haystack
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-xapian-haystack
Install python-xapian-haystack 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-xapian-haystack
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-xapian-haystack
How To Uninstall python-xapian-haystack on Debian 10
To uninstall only the python-xapian-haystack
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-xapian-haystack
Uninstall python-xapian-haystack And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-xapian-haystack
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-xapian-haystack
Remove python-xapian-haystack Configurations and Data
To remove python-xapian-haystack
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-xapian-haystack
Remove python-xapian-haystack configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-xapian-haystack
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-xapian-haystack
Dependencies
python-xapian-haystack have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-xapian-haystack
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.