How To Install eclipse-pydev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install eclipse-pydev
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is eclipse-pydev
eclipse-pydev is:
PyDev is a Python IDE for Eclipse, which may be used in Python, Jython and IronPython development.
It comes with many goodies such as:
- Django integration
- Code completion
- Code completion with auto import
- Syntax highlighting
- Code analysis
- Go to definition
- Refactoring
- Mark occurrences
- Debugger
- Remote debugger
- Tokens browser
- Interactive console
- Unittest integration
- Code coverage
There are three methods to install eclipse-pydev
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 eclipse-pydev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install eclipse-pydev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install eclipse-pydev
Install eclipse-pydev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install eclipse-pydev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install eclipse-pydev
Install eclipse-pydev 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 eclipse-pydev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install eclipse-pydev
How To Uninstall eclipse-pydev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the eclipse-pydev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove eclipse-pydev
Uninstall eclipse-pydev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall eclipse-pydev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove eclipse-pydev
Remove eclipse-pydev Configurations and Data
To remove eclipse-pydev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge eclipse-pydev
Remove eclipse-pydev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove eclipse-pydev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge eclipse-pydev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install eclipse-pydev
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.