How To Install python3-dask on Debian 12
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.
- Dynamic task scheduling optimized for computation. This is similar to Airflow, Luigi, Celery, or Make, but optimized for interactive computational workloads.
- “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:
- python3-fsspec
- python3-toolz
- python3-click
- python3-cloudpickle
- python3-packaging
- python3-partd
- python3-yaml
- python3
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
.