How To Install python-gunicorn on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-gunicorn on Debian 10.
What is python-gunicorn
python-gunicorn is:
Green Unicorn (gunicorn) is an HTTP/WSGI server designed to serve fast clients or sleepy applications. That is to say; behind a buffering front-end server such as nginx or lighttpd.
- Optional support for Eventlet, Tornado and Gevent to provide asynchronous long-polling (“Comet”) connections.
- Process management: Gunicorn reaps and restarts workers that die.
- Easy integration with Django and Paster compatible applications (Pylons, TurboGears 2, etc.
- Load balancing via pre-fork and a shared socket
- Graceful worker process restarts
- Upgrading without losing connections
- Decode chunked transfers on-the-fly, allowing upload progress notifications or stream-based protocols over HTTP
This is the Python 2 library.
There are three methods to install python-gunicorn 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-gunicorn 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-gunicorn using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-gunicorn
Install python-gunicorn Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-gunicorn using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-gunicorn
Install python-gunicorn 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-gunicorn using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-gunicorn
How To Uninstall python-gunicorn on Debian 10
To uninstall only the python-gunicorn package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-gunicorn
Uninstall python-gunicorn And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-gunicorn and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-gunicorn
Remove python-gunicorn Configurations and Data
To remove python-gunicorn configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-gunicorn
Remove python-gunicorn configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-gunicorn configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-gunicorn
Dependencies
python-gunicorn have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-gunicorn package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
