How To Install bloscpack on Debian 10

Learn how to install bloscpack on Debian 10 with this tutorial. bloscpack is CLI utility for the Blosc metacompressor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bloscpack on Debian 10.

What is bloscpack

bloscpack is:

This is the command line interface utility for the Blosc metacompressor. It comes with native support for efficiently serializing and deserializing Numpy arrays, and a versatile Python 3 API.

Since Bloscpack is under development please regard that the internal storage format for the compressed files might change in the future, so do not depend critically on the generated files yet keeping on to be valid for upcoming versions.

There are three methods to install bloscpack 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 bloscpack Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install bloscpack

Install bloscpack Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install bloscpack

Install bloscpack 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 bloscpack using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bloscpack

How To Uninstall bloscpack on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove bloscpack

Uninstall bloscpack And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bloscpack

Remove bloscpack Configurations and Data

To remove bloscpack configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bloscpack

Remove bloscpack configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bloscpack

Dependencies

bloscpack have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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