How To Install python3-ffcv on Debian 12

Learn how to install python3-ffcv on Debian 12 with this tutorial. python3-ffcv is Fast Forward Computer Vision (and other ML workloads)

Introduction

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

What is python3-ffcv

python3-ffcv is:

This is a drop-in data loading system that dramatically increases data throughput in model training.

There are three methods to install python3-ffcv 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-ffcv 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-ffcv using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-ffcv

Install python3-ffcv Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python3-ffcv

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

sudo aptitude -y install python3-ffcv

How To Uninstall python3-ffcv on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove python3-ffcv

Uninstall python3-ffcv And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-ffcv

Remove python3-ffcv Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-ffcv

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

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

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

Dependencies

python3-ffcv have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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