How To Install python-kazoo on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-kazoo on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-kazoo
python-kazoo is:
Kazoo features:
- A wide range of recipe implementations, like Lock, Election or Queue
- Data and Children Watchers
- Simplified Zookeeper connection state tracking
- Unified asynchronous API for use with greenlets or threads
- Support for gevent 0.13 and gevent 1.0
- Support for Zookeeper 3.3 and 3.4 servers
- Integrated testing helpers for Zookeeper clusters
- Pure-Python based implementation of the wire protocol, avoiding all the memory leaks, lacking features, and debugging madness of the C library
Kazoo is heavily inspired by Netflix Curator simplifications and helpers.
This is the Python 2 version of the package.
There are three methods to install python-kazoo 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-kazoo 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-kazoo using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-kazoo
Install python-kazoo Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-kazoo using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-kazoo
Install python-kazoo 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-kazoo using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-kazoo
How To Uninstall python-kazoo on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-kazoo package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-kazoo
Uninstall python-kazoo And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-kazoo and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-kazoo
Remove python-kazoo Configurations and Data
To remove python-kazoo configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-kazoo
Remove python-kazoo configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-kazoo configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-kazoo
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-kazoo package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
