How To Install python3-gunicorn on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-gunicorn
on Debian 9.
What is python3-gunicorn
python3-gunicorn is:
Green Unicorn (gunicorn) is an HTTP/WSGI server designed to serve fast clients or sleepy applications. That is to say; behind a buffering front-end server such as nginx or lighttpd.
- Optional support for Eventlet, Tornado and Gevent to provide asynchronous long-polling (“Comet”) connections.
- Process management: Gunicorn reaps and restarts workers that die.
- Easy integration with Django and Paster compatible applications (Pylons, TurboGears 2, etc.
- Load balancing via pre-fork and a shared socket
- Graceful worker process restarts
- Upgrading without losing connections
- Decode chunked transfers on-the-fly, allowing upload progress notifications or stream-based protocols over HTTP
This is the Python 3 library.
There are three methods to install python3-gunicorn
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-gunicorn 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-gunicorn
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-gunicorn
Install python3-gunicorn Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-gunicorn
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-gunicorn
Install python3-gunicorn 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-gunicorn
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-gunicorn
How To Uninstall python3-gunicorn on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python3-gunicorn
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-gunicorn
Uninstall python3-gunicorn And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-gunicorn
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-gunicorn
Remove python3-gunicorn Configurations and Data
To remove python3-gunicorn
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-gunicorn
Remove python3-gunicorn configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-gunicorn
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-gunicorn
Dependencies
python3-gunicorn have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-gunicorn
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.