How To Install python3-indexed-gzip on Debian 10

Learn how to install python3-indexed-gzip on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python3-indexed-gzip is fast random access of gzip files in Python

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-indexed-gzip on Debian 10.

What is `python3-indexed-gzip`

python3-indexed-gzip is:

Drop-in replacement IndexedGzipFile for the built-in Python gzip.GzipFile class that does not need to start decompressing from the beginning of the file when for every seek(). It gets around this performance limitation by building an index, which contains seek points, mappings between corresponding locations in the compressed and uncompressed data streams. Each seek point is accompanied by a chunk (32KB) of uncompressed data which is used to initialise the decompression algorithm, allowing to start reading from any seek point. If the index is built with a seek point spacing of 1MB, only 512KB (on average) of data have to be decompressed to read from any location in the file.

This package provides the Python 3 module.

There are three methods to install python3-indexed-gzip on Debian 10. 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-indexed-gzip 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-indexed-gzip using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-indexed-gzip

Install python3-indexed-gzip Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python3-indexed-gzip

Install python3-indexed-gzip 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-indexed-gzip using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-indexed-gzip

How To Uninstall python3-indexed-gzip on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python3-indexed-gzip

Uninstall python3-indexed-gzip And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-indexed-gzip and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-indexed-gzip

Remove python3-indexed-gzip Configurations and Data

To remove python3-indexed-gzip configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-indexed-gzip

Remove python3-indexed-gzip configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-indexed-gzip

Dependencies

python3-indexed-gzip have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-indexed-gzip package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.