How To Install python-fastcluster on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-fastcluster on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-fastcluster
python-fastcluster is:
This library provides Python functions for hierarchical clustering. It generates hierarchical clusters from distance matrices or from vector data.
Part of this module is intended to replace the functions
linkage, single, complete, average, weighted, centroid, median, ward
in the module scipy.cluster.hierarchy with the same functionality but much faster algorithms. Moreover, the function ’linkage_vector' provides memory-efficient clustering for vector data.
The interface is very similar to MATLAB’s Statistics Toolbox API to make code easier to port from MATLAB to Python/Numpy. The core implementation of this library is in C++ for efficiency.
This package provides the package’s Python interface.
There are three methods to install python-fastcluster on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install python-fastcluster 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-fastcluster using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-fastcluster
Install python-fastcluster Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-fastcluster using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-fastcluster
Install python-fastcluster 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 python-fastcluster using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-fastcluster
How To Uninstall python-fastcluster on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-fastcluster package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-fastcluster
Uninstall python-fastcluster And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-fastcluster and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-fastcluster
Remove python-fastcluster Configurations and Data
To remove python-fastcluster configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-fastcluster
Remove python-fastcluster configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-fastcluster configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-fastcluster
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-fastcluster package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
