How To Install python-elasticsearch on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-elasticsearch on Debian 10.
What is python-elasticsearch
python-elasticsearch is:
Official low-level client for Elasticsearch. Its goal is to provide common ground for all Elasticsearch-related code in Python; because of this it tries to be opinion-free and very extendable.
The client’s features include:
- translating basic Python data types to and from json (datetimes are not decoded for performance reasons)
- configurable automatic discovery of cluster nodes
- persistent connections
- load balancing (with pluggable selection strategy) across all available nodes
- failed connection penalization (time based - failed connections won’t be retried until a timeout is reached)
- thread safety
- pluggable architecture
There are three methods to install python-elasticsearch 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-elasticsearch 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-elasticsearch using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-elasticsearch
Install python-elasticsearch Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-elasticsearch using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-elasticsearch
Install python-elasticsearch 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-elasticsearch using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-elasticsearch
How To Uninstall python-elasticsearch on Debian 10
To uninstall only the python-elasticsearch package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-elasticsearch
Uninstall python-elasticsearch And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-elasticsearch and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-elasticsearch
Remove python-elasticsearch Configurations and Data
To remove python-elasticsearch configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-elasticsearch
Remove python-elasticsearch configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-elasticsearch configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-elasticsearch
Dependencies
python-elasticsearch have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-elasticsearch package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
