How To Install python-migrate on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-migrate
on Debian 9.
What is python-migrate
python-migrate is:
Inspired by Ruby on Rails’ migrations, migrate provides a way to deal with database schema changes in SQLAlchemy projects.
SQLAlchemy-migrate is build on top of SQLAlchemy and provides a changeset and a versioning API for database schemas as well as a script utilizing these APIs. The database change sets are managed in a file based repository allowing upgrades and downgrades of database schema versions. The change sets may consist of Python code facilitating the changeset API or SQL scripts.
SQLAlchemy-migrate has support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Oracle databases. The support for Oracle is not as well tested as the support for the other database systems.
This package provides the Python 2.7 module.
There are three methods to install python-migrate
on Debian 9. 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-migrate 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-migrate
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-migrate
Install python-migrate Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-migrate
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-migrate
Install python-migrate 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-migrate
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-migrate
How To Uninstall python-migrate on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-migrate
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-migrate
Uninstall python-migrate And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-migrate
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-migrate
Remove python-migrate Configurations and Data
To remove python-migrate
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-migrate
Remove python-migrate configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-migrate
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-migrate
Dependencies
python-migrate have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-migrate
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.