How To Install python-xapian-haystack on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-xapian-haystack on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-xapian-haystack is Xapian backend for Django-Haystack (Python2 version)

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.