How To Install idle on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install idle on Debian 9.
What is idle
idle is:
IDLE is an Integrated Development Environment for Python. IDLE is written using Tkinter and therefore quite platform-independent.
This package is a dependency package, which depends on Debian’s default Python version (currently v2.7) of IDLE.
There are three methods to install idle on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install idle Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install idle using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install idle
Install idle Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install idle using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install idle
Install idle 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 idle using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install idle
How To Uninstall idle on Debian 9
To uninstall only the idle package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove idle
Uninstall idle And Its Dependencies
To uninstall idle and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove idle
Remove idle Configurations and Data
To remove idle configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge idle
Remove idle configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove idle configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge idle
Dependencies
idle have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install idle package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
