How To Install python-flake8 on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-flake8
on Debian 10.
What is python-flake8
python-flake8 is:
Flake8 is a wrapper around PyFlakes, pycodestyle, and Ned’s McCabe script. Flake8 runs all tools by launching the single ‘flake8’ script, but ignores pycodestyle and PyFlakes extended options and just uses defaults. It displays the warnings in a per-file, merged output.
This package provides Python 2 module bindings only.
There are three methods to install python-flake8
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 python-flake8 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python-flake8
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-flake8
Install python-flake8 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-flake8
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-flake8
Install python-flake8 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 python-flake8
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-flake8
How To Uninstall python-flake8 on Debian 10
To uninstall only the python-flake8
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-flake8
Uninstall python-flake8 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-flake8
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-flake8
Remove python-flake8 Configurations and Data
To remove python-flake8
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-flake8
Remove python-flake8 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-flake8
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-flake8
Dependencies
python-flake8 have the following dependencies:
- python-configparser
- python-enum34
- python-mccabe
- python-pycodestyle
- python-pyflakes
- python-setuptools
- python-pkg-resources
- python
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-flake8
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.