How To Install sqlfluff on Debian 12

Learn how to install sqlfluff on Debian 12 with this tutorial. sqlfluff is SQL linter tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sqlfluff on Debian 12.

What is `sqlfluff`

sqlfluff is:

SQLFluff is an extensible and modular linter designed to help you write good SQL and catch errors and bad SQL before it hits your database.

SQLFluff has a few components:

A generic parser for SQL which aims to be able to unify SQL written in different dialects into a comparable format. Most of the codebase for SQLFluff is the parser, mostly because at the point of developing SQLFluff, there didn??t appear to be a good option for a whitespace-aware parser that could be used instead.
A mechanism for measuring written SQL against a set of rules, with the added ability to fix any violations found. The core vision for SQLFluff is to be really good at being the linter.
An opinionated set of guidelines for how SQL should be structured and formatted. SQLFluff aims to be opinionated but it also accepts that many organisations and groups have pre-existing strong conventions around how to write SQL and so ultimately SQLFluff should be flexible enough to support whichever rule set a user wishes to.
A public API for other Python applications to use SQLFluff to check and fix SQL code in an automated fashion.

This package installs the complete SQLFluff tool including the parser, lexer, the (configurable) rules, and the Python API.

There are three methods to install sqlfluff on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install sqlfluff Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install sqlfluff

Install sqlfluff Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install sqlfluff using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install sqlfluff

Install sqlfluff 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 sqlfluff using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install sqlfluff

How To Uninstall sqlfluff on Debian 12

To uninstall only the sqlfluff package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove sqlfluff

Uninstall sqlfluff And Its Dependencies

To uninstall sqlfluff and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sqlfluff

Remove sqlfluff Configurations and Data

To remove sqlfluff configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge sqlfluff

Remove sqlfluff configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sqlfluff

Dependencies

sqlfluff have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sqlfluff package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.