How To Install python3-xapian on Debian 10

Learn how to install python3-xapian on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python3-xapian is Xapian search engine interface for Python3

Introduction

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

What is `python3-xapian`

python3-xapian is:

This package provides Xapian Python3 bindings.

The Xapian search engine library is a highly adaptable toolkit which allows developers to easily add advanced indexing and search facilities to their own applications. It implements the probabilistic model of information retrieval, and provides facilities for performing ranked free-text searches, relevance feedback, phrase searching, boolean searching, stemming, and simultaneous update and searching. It is highly scalable, and is capable of working with collections containing hundreds of millions of documents.

The Xapian Python bindings provide an interface to the Xapian library from the Python programming language, allowing both indexing and retrieval operations.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-xapian

Install python3-xapian Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python3-xapian

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

sudo aptitude -y install python3-xapian

How To Uninstall python3-xapian on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python3-xapian

Uninstall python3-xapian And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-xapian

Remove python3-xapian Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-xapian

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

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

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

Dependencies

python3-xapian have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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