How To Install python-xarray on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-xarray on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-xarray is N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python

Introduction

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

What is python-xarray

python-xarray is:

xarray (formerly xray) is an open source project and Python package that aims to bring the labeled data power of pandas to the physical sciences, by providing N-dimensional variants of the core pandas data structures.

It provides a pandas-like and pandas-compatible toolkit for analytics on multi-dimensional arrays, rather than the tabular data for which pandas excels.

This package provides the Python 2 library

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-xarray

Install python-xarray Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-xarray

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-xarray

How To Uninstall python-xarray on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-xarray

Uninstall python-xarray And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-xarray

Remove python-xarray Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-xarray

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-xarray have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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