How To Install python-ipywidgets on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-ipywidgets on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-ipywidgets
python-ipywidgets is:
Notebooks come alive when interactive widgets are used. Learning becomes an immersive and fun experience. Researchers can easily see how changing inputs to a model impact the results.
This package installs the library for Python 2 notebooks.
There are three methods to install python-ipywidgets on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-ipywidgets 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-ipywidgets using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-ipywidgets
Install python-ipywidgets Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-ipywidgets using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-ipywidgets
Install python-ipywidgets 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install python-ipywidgets using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-ipywidgets
How To Uninstall python-ipywidgets on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-ipywidgets package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-ipywidgets
Uninstall python-ipywidgets And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-ipywidgets and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-ipywidgets
Remove python-ipywidgets Configurations and Data
To remove python-ipywidgets configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-ipywidgets
Remove python-ipywidgets configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-ipywidgets configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-ipywidgets
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-ipywidgets package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
