How To Install python-pymemcache on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-pymemcache on Debian 9.

What is python-pymemcache

python-pymemcache is:

Pymemcache is a comprehensive, fast, pure-Python memcached client. It supports the following features:

• Complete implementation of the memcached text protocol.
• Configurable timeouts for socket connect and send/recv calls.
• Access to the “noreply” flag, which can significantly increase the speed of writes.
• Flexible, simple approach to serialization and deserialization.
• The (optional) ability to treat network and memcached errors as cache misses.

This package contains the Python 2.x module.

There are three methods to install python-pymemcache 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-pymemcache 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-pymemcache using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python-pymemcache

Install python-pymemcache Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python-pymemcache using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python-pymemcache

Install python-pymemcache 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-pymemcache using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-pymemcache

How To Uninstall python-pymemcache on Debian 9

To uninstall only the python-pymemcache package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-pymemcache

Uninstall python-pymemcache And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python-pymemcache and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-pymemcache

Remove python-pymemcache Configurations and Data

To remove python-pymemcache configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-pymemcache

Remove python-pymemcache configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python-pymemcache configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-pymemcache

Dependencies

python-pymemcache have the following dependencies:

• python-six
• python

References

• python-pymemcache website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-pymemcache package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.