How To Install python-pyodbc on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-pyodbc
on Debian 10.
What is python-pyodbc
python-pyodbc is:
A Python DB API 2 module for ODBC. No 3rd party libraries are required. Only native Python datatypes are used, such as decimal and datetime. It implements the Python Database API Specification v2.0. For example: import pyodbc Next, create a connection by passing an ODBC connection string to the connect method. This step causes ODBC to load the database driver (the SQL Server driver in this example) and connect to the database. cnxn = pyodbc.connect(‘DSN=northwind’)
There are three methods to install python-pyodbc
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-pyodbc 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-pyodbc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-pyodbc
Install python-pyodbc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-pyodbc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-pyodbc
Install python-pyodbc 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-pyodbc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-pyodbc
How To Uninstall python-pyodbc on Debian 10
To uninstall only the python-pyodbc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-pyodbc
Uninstall python-pyodbc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-pyodbc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-pyodbc
Remove python-pyodbc Configurations and Data
To remove python-pyodbc
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-pyodbc
Remove python-pyodbc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-pyodbc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-pyodbc
Dependencies
python-pyodbc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-pyodbc
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.