How To Install python3-ibm-watson on Debian 12

Learn how to install python3-ibm-watson on Debian 12 with this tutorial. python3-ibm-watson is Python client library to use the IBM Watson Services (Python 3)

Introduction

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

What is python3-ibm-watson

python3-ibm-watson is:

Python client library to quickly interface with various IBM Watson Cloud services. It requires Watson Service Credentials.

The services supported are:

  • AlchemyAPI Language service
  • AlchemyAPI Vision service
  • AlchemyData News service
  • Conversation service
  • Document Conversion service
  • Language Translation service
  • Language Translator service
  • Natural Language Classifier service
  • Personality Insights service
  • Retrieve and Rank service
  • Speech to Text service
  • Text to Speech service
  • Tone Analyzer service
  • Tradeoff Analytics service
  • Visual Recognition service

This package installs the library for Python 3.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-ibm-watson

Install python3-ibm-watson Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python3-ibm-watson

Install python3-ibm-watson 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-ibm-watson using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-ibm-watson

How To Uninstall python3-ibm-watson on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove python3-ibm-watson

Uninstall python3-ibm-watson And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-ibm-watson

Remove python3-ibm-watson Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-ibm-watson

Remove python3-ibm-watson configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-ibm-watson

Dependencies

python3-ibm-watson have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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