How To Install python-seaborn on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-seaborn on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-seaborn
python-seaborn is:
Seaborn is a library for making attractive and informative statistical graphics in Python. It is built on top of matplotlib and tightly integrated with the PyData stack, including support for numpy and pandas data structures and statistical routines from scipy and statsmodels.
Some of the features that seaborn offers are
- Several built-in themes that improve on the default matplotlib aesthetics
- Tools for choosing color palettes to make beautiful plots that reveal patterns in your data
- Functions for visualizing univariate and bivariate distributions or for comparing them between subsets of data
- Tools that fit and visualize linear regression models for different kinds of independent and dependent variables
- A function to plot statistical timeseries data with flexible estimation and representation of uncertainty around the estimate
- High-level abstractions for structuring grids of plots that let you easily build complex visualizations
This is the Python 2 version of the package.
There are three methods to install python-seaborn 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-seaborn 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-seaborn using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-seaborn
Install python-seaborn Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-seaborn using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-seaborn
Install python-seaborn 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-seaborn using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-seaborn
How To Uninstall python-seaborn on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-seaborn package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-seaborn
Uninstall python-seaborn And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-seaborn and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-seaborn
Remove python-seaborn Configurations and Data
To remove python-seaborn configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-seaborn
Remove python-seaborn configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-seaborn configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-seaborn
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-seaborn package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
