How To Install python-mistral on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-mistral on Debian 9.
What is python-mistral
python-mistral is:
Mistral is a workflow service. Most business processes consist of multiple distinct interconnected steps that need to be executed in a particular order in a distributed environment. One can describe such process as a set of tasks and task relations and upload such description to Mistral so that it takes care of state management, correct execution order, parallelism, synchronization and high availability. Mistral also provides flexible task scheduling so that it can run a process according to a specified schedule (i.e. every Sunday at 4.00pm) instead of running it immediately. Such set of tasks and relations between them is called a workflow.
This package contains the Python libraries.
There are three methods to install python-mistral 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-mistral 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-mistral using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-mistral
Install python-mistral Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-mistral using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-mistral
Install python-mistral 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-mistral using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-mistral
How To Uninstall python-mistral on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-mistral package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-mistral
Uninstall python-mistral And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-mistral and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-mistral
Remove python-mistral Configurations and Data
To remove python-mistral configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-mistral
Remove python-mistral configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-mistral configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-mistral
Dependencies
python-mistral have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-mistral package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.