How To Install python3-opendht on Debian 12

Learn how to install python3-opendht on Debian 12 with this tutorial. python3-opendht is Python 3 bindings for libopendht C++ library

Introduction

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

What is python3-opendht

python3-opendht is:

OpenDHT is a lightweight C++17 Distributed Hash Table implementation.

OpenDHT provides an easy to use distributed in-memory data store. Every node in the network can read and write values to the store. Values are distributed over the network, with redundancy.

Overview of features:

  • Lightweight and scalable, designed for large networks and small devices
  • High resilience to network disruption
  • Public key cryptography layer providing optional data signature and encryption (using GnuTLS)
  • IPv4 and IPv6 support
  • Clean and powerful C++17 map API
  • Bindings for C and Python 3
  • REST API with optional HTTP client+server with push notification support

This package contains the Python 3 bindings.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-opendht

Install python3-opendht Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python3-opendht

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

sudo aptitude -y install python3-opendht

How To Uninstall python3-opendht on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove python3-opendht

Uninstall python3-opendht And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-opendht

Remove python3-opendht Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-opendht

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

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

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

Dependencies

python3-opendht have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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