How To Install python-cloudpickle on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-cloudpickle on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-cloudpickle is Extended pickling support for Python 2 objects

Introduction

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

What is python-cloudpickle

python-cloudpickle is:

cloudpickle makes it possible to serialize Python constructs not supported by the default pickle module from the Python standard library.

cloudpickle is especially useful for cluster computing where Python expressions are shipped over the network to execute on remote hosts, possibly close to the data.

Among other things, cloudpickle supports pickling for lambda expressions, functions and classes defined interactively in the __main__ module.

This contains the Python 2 version.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-cloudpickle

Install python-cloudpickle Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-cloudpickle

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-cloudpickle

How To Uninstall python-cloudpickle on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-cloudpickle

Uninstall python-cloudpickle And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-cloudpickle

Remove python-cloudpickle Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-cloudpickle

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-cloudpickle have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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