How To Install idle-python2.7 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install idle-python2.7
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is idle-python2.7
idle-python2.7 is:
IDLE is an Integrated Development Environment for Python (v2.7). IDLE is written using Tkinter and therefore quite platform-independent.
There are three methods to install idle-python2.7
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 idle-python2.7 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-python2.7
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install idle-python2.7
Install idle-python2.7 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install idle-python2.7
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install idle-python2.7
Install idle-python2.7 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 idle-python2.7
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install idle-python2.7
How To Uninstall idle-python2.7 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the idle-python2.7
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove idle-python2.7
Uninstall idle-python2.7 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall idle-python2.7
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove idle-python2.7
Remove idle-python2.7 Configurations and Data
To remove idle-python2.7
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge idle-python2.7
Remove idle-python2.7 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove idle-python2.7
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge idle-python2.7
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install idle-python2.7
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.