How To Install python3-dask on Debian 12

Learn how to install python3-dask on Debian 12 with this tutorial. python3-dask is Minimal task scheduling abstraction for Python 3

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-dask on Debian 12.

What is python3-dask

python3-dask is:

Dask is a flexible parallel computing library for analytics, containing two components.

  1. Dynamic task scheduling optimized for computation. This is similar to Airflow, Luigi, Celery, or Make, but optimized for interactive computational workloads.
  2. “Big Data” collections like parallel arrays, dataframes, and lists that extend common interfaces like NumPy, Pandas, or Python iterators to larger-than-memory or distributed environments. These parallel collections run on top of the dynamic task schedulers.

This contains the Python 3 version.

There are three methods to install python3-dask on Debian 12. 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-dask 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-dask using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-dask

Install python3-dask Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-dask using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-dask

Install python3-dask 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-dask using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-dask

How To Uninstall python3-dask on Debian 12

To uninstall only the python3-dask package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-dask

Uninstall python3-dask And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-dask and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-dask

Remove python3-dask Configurations and Data

To remove python3-dask configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-dask

Remove python3-dask configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-dask configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-dask

Dependencies

python3-dask have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-dask package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.