How To Install python3-gunicorn on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-gunicorn on Kali Linux. python3-gunicorn is Event-based HTTP/WSGI server (Python 3 libraries)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-gunicorn on Kali Linux.

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 Kali Linux. 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 on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. 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 Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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 Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.