How To Install celery on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install celery on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is celery
celery is:
Celery is an open source asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.
The execution units, called tasks, are executed concurrently on one or more worker nodes. Tasks can execute asynchronously (in the background) or synchronously (wait until ready).
Celery is written in Python, but the protocol can be implemented in any language. It can also operate with other languages using webhooks.
The recommended message broker is RabbitMQ, but limited support for Redis, Beanstalk, MongoDB, CouchDB, and databases (using SQLAlchemy or the Django ORM) is also available. Celery is easy to integrate with Django, using the python-django-celery package.
This package contains the common files of the library.
There are three methods to install celery on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install celery Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install celery using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install celery
Install celery Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install celery using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install celery
Install celery 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install celery using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install celery
How To Uninstall celery on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the celery package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove celery
Uninstall celery And Its Dependencies
To uninstall celery and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove celery
Remove celery Configurations and Data
To remove celery configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge celery
Remove celery configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove celery configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge celery
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install celery package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.