How To Install flake8 on Debian 10

Learn how to install flake8 on Debian 10 with this tutorial. flake8 is code checker using pycodestyle and pyflakes

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install flake8 on Debian 10.

What is flake8

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 flake8 binary.

There are three methods to install 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 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 flake8 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install flake8

Install flake8 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install flake8 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install flake8

Install 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 flake8 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install flake8

How To Uninstall flake8 on Debian 10

To uninstall only the flake8 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove flake8

Uninstall flake8 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall flake8 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove flake8

Remove flake8 Configurations and Data

To remove flake8 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge flake8

Remove flake8 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove flake8 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge flake8

Dependencies

flake8 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install flake8 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.