How To Install virtualenv-clone on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install virtualenv-clone
on Debian 10.
What is virtualenv-clone
virtualenv-clone is:
Virtualenv provides a way to make virtualenv’s relocatable which could then be copied as wanted. However making a virtualenv relocatable this way breaks the no-site-packages isolation of the virtualenv as well as other aspects that come with relative paths and ‘/usr/bin/env’ shebangs that may be undesirable.
Also, the .pth and .egg-link rewriting doesn’t seem to work as intended. This attempts to overcome these issues and provide a way to easily clone an existing virtualenv.
This is the transitional package for python-virtualenv-clone.
There are three methods to install virtualenv-clone
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 virtualenv-clone Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install virtualenv-clone
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install virtualenv-clone
Install virtualenv-clone Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install virtualenv-clone
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install virtualenv-clone
Install virtualenv-clone 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 virtualenv-clone
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install virtualenv-clone
How To Uninstall virtualenv-clone on Debian 10
To uninstall only the virtualenv-clone
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove virtualenv-clone
Uninstall virtualenv-clone And Its Dependencies
To uninstall virtualenv-clone
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove virtualenv-clone
Remove virtualenv-clone Configurations and Data
To remove virtualenv-clone
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge virtualenv-clone
Remove virtualenv-clone configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove virtualenv-clone
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge virtualenv-clone
Dependencies
virtualenv-clone have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install virtualenv-clone
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.