How To Install idle3 on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install idle3 on Debian 10.
What is idle3
idle3 is:
IDLE is an Integrated Development Environment for Python.
This package is a transitional package, you can safely remove it.
There are three methods to install idle3 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 idle3 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install idle3 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install idle3
Install idle3 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install idle3 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install idle3
Install idle3 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 idle3 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install idle3
How To Uninstall idle3 on Debian 10
To uninstall only the idle3 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove idle3
Uninstall idle3 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall idle3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove idle3
Remove idle3 Configurations and Data
To remove idle3 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge idle3
Remove idle3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove idle3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge idle3
Dependencies
idle3 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install idle3 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.