How To Install idle on Debian 10

Learn how to install idle on Debian 10 with this tutorial. idle is IDE for Python using Tkinter (default version)

Introduction

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

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 3 version (currently v3.7).

There are three methods to install idle 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 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 10

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 10, 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 10 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 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.