How To Install python-tables on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-tables on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-tables
python-tables is:
PyTables is a package for managing hierarchical datasets and designed to efficiently cope with extremely large amounts of data.
It is built on top of the HDF5 library and the NumPy package. It features an object-oriented interface that, combined with C extensions for the performance-critical parts of the code (generated using Cython), makes it a fast, yet extremely easy to use tool for interactively save and retrieve very large amounts of data. One important feature of PyTables is that it optimizes memory and disk resources so that they take much less space (between a factor 3 to 5, and more if the data is compressible) than other solutions, like for example, relational or object oriented databases.
- Compound types (records) can be used entirely from Python (i.e. it is not necessary to use C for taking advantage of them).
- The tables are both enlargeable and compressible.
- I/O is buffered, so you can get very fast I/O, specially with large tables.
- Very easy to select data through the use of iterators over the rows in tables. Extended slicing is supported as well.
- It supports the complete set of NumPy objects.
This is the Python 2 version of the package.
There are three methods to install python-tables 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-tables 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-tables using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-tables
Install python-tables Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-tables using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-tables
Install python-tables 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-tables using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-tables
How To Uninstall python-tables on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-tables package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-tables
Uninstall python-tables And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-tables and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-tables
Remove python-tables Configurations and Data
To remove python-tables configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-tables
Remove python-tables configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-tables configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-tables
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-tables package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
