How To Install python-cylc on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-cylc on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-cylc is Python libraries for cylc workflow scheduler

Introduction

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

What is python-cylc

python-cylc is:

Cylc (“silk”) is a suite engine and meta-scheduler that specializes in suites of cycling tasks for weather forecasting, climate modeling, and related processing (it can also be used for one-off workflows of non-cycling tasks, which is a simpler problem).

This package contains python library code used by cylc.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-cylc

Install python-cylc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-cylc

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-cylc

How To Uninstall python-cylc on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-cylc

Uninstall python-cylc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-cylc

Remove python-cylc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-cylc

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-cylc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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