How To Install python3-cachetools on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-cachetools on Debian 9.
What is python3-cachetools
python3-cachetools is:
This Python 3 module provides various memoizing collections and decorators, including a variant of the Python 3 Standard Library functools.lru_cache() function decorator.
The supported cache algorithms are:
- Least recently used (LRU)
- Least frequently used (LFU)
- Random replacement (RR)
- Per-item time-to-live (TTL)
There are three methods to install python3-cachetools 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 python3-cachetools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-cachetools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-cachetools
Install python3-cachetools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-cachetools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-cachetools
Install python3-cachetools 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 python3-cachetools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-cachetools
How To Uninstall python3-cachetools on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python3-cachetools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-cachetools
Uninstall python3-cachetools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-cachetools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-cachetools
Remove python3-cachetools Configurations and Data
To remove python3-cachetools configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-cachetools
Remove python3-cachetools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-cachetools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-cachetools
Dependencies
python3-cachetools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-cachetools package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.